Hi! Linus favors one-time use signed tags, e.g. for_linus. Unfortunately if I push to such a tag without -f, I get an error ("already exists"). Would it make sense for there to be an option that makes it behave like a head, and allow fast-forward?
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Jonathan NiederRe: fast-forwarding tags
Hi,
Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> Linus favors one-time use signed tags, e.g. for_linus.
> Unfortunately if I push to such a tag without -f,
> I get an error ("already exists").
> Would it make sense for there to be an option that makes it behave like
> a head, and allow fast-forward?Nah, I think I prefer keeping the safety. :)
Are you pushing with "git push --tags", "git push --follow-tags", "git push origin tag for-linus", or "git push origin for-linus"? It's possible that the last two should *always* allow overwriting tags (regardless of whether the change is a fast-forward update), though I haven't thought it through carefully. In the former two cases, the check for moving an existing tag seems useful and worth preserving.
In the meantime, a command like "git push origin +for-linus" seems like a pleasant way to get the job done. That way, nothing bad happens if you get distracted and forget to add the for-linus argument (unlike "git push -f origin").
Thanks, Jonathan