From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: "Denton Liu" <liu.denton@gmail.com>,
"Git Mailing List" <git@vger.kernel.org>,
"Robert Dailey" <rcdailey.lists@gmail.com>,
"Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>,
"Elijah Newren" <newren@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2.5 2/2] tag: prevent nested tags
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2019 08:27:22 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190404122722.GA23024@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqftqyf76a.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
On Thu, Apr 04, 2019 at 06:31:25PM +0900, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
>
> > I do still think it is likely to be a mistake. I think Junio's point,
> > though is: who cares if the mistake was made? For the most part you can
> > continue to use the tag as if the mistake had never been made, because
> > Git peels through multiple layers as necessary.
>
> Nicely said.
>
> If we forget to peel, that is a bigger problem, but I do not think
> it makes any sense to single out tag-of-tag as "curious" and forbid
> it, when we silently allow tag-of-blob or tag-of-tree happily.
IMHO the difference between those cases is that it is very easy to type
something natural to get a tag of tag, like:
git tag -m foo mytag
# oops, try again
git tag -m bar -f mytag mytag
but you have to take pretty specific steps to get a tag of a blob or
tree, like:
git tag mytag HEAD:path
or
git tag mytag HEAD^{tree}
Unless you have a ref pointing to a blob or tree in the first place, of
course. But then it is a chicken-and-egg question. Didn't you have to do
something specific to get that tag in the first place?
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-04-04 12:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-03-21 16:59 Strange annotated tag issue Robert Dailey
2019-03-21 19:04 ` Bryan Turner
2019-03-21 19:39 ` Jeff King
2019-03-21 19:29 ` Jeff King
2019-03-25 13:50 ` Robert Dailey
2019-03-25 14:49 ` Jeff King
2019-03-25 15:31 ` Robert Dailey
2019-03-25 18:43 ` Bryan Turner
2019-03-25 23:36 ` Jeff King
2019-03-25 19:19 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-03-25 23:37 ` Jeff King
2019-03-26 7:53 ` [PATCH 0/3] tag: prevent recursive tags Denton Liu
2019-03-26 7:53 ` [PATCH 1/3] " Denton Liu
2019-03-26 8:51 ` Denton Liu
2019-03-26 10:10 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-03-27 4:57 ` Elijah Newren
2019-03-27 10:27 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-03-28 19:02 ` Robert Dailey
2019-03-26 7:53 ` [PATCH 2/3] t7004: ensure recursive tag behavior is working Denton Liu
2019-03-26 10:11 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-03-26 7:53 ` [PATCH 3/3] git-tag.txt: document --allow-recursive-tag option Denton Liu
2019-03-26 10:16 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-03-26 16:18 ` [PATCH 0/3] tag: prevent recursive tags Jeff King
2019-04-02 5:38 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] tag: prevent nested tags Denton Liu
2019-04-02 5:38 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] tag: fix formatting Denton Liu
2019-04-02 5:38 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] tag: prevent nested tags Denton Liu
2019-04-02 23:03 ` [PATCH v2.5 " Denton Liu
2019-04-03 7:32 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-04-03 8:49 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-04-03 18:26 ` Robert Dailey
2019-04-04 9:32 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-04-04 13:47 ` Robert Dailey
2019-04-04 21:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-04-05 2:51 ` Robert Dailey
2019-04-03 18:16 ` Johannes Sixt
2019-04-03 21:33 ` Denton Liu
2019-04-04 2:02 ` Jeff King
2019-04-04 9:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-04-04 12:27 ` Jeff King [this message]
2019-04-04 21:54 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-04-04 22:12 ` Jeff King
2019-04-11 18:40 ` Eckhard Maaß
2019-04-12 3:21 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-04-05 0:36 ` Elijah Newren
2019-04-05 5:29 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-04-04 18:25 ` [PATCH v3 0/2] tag: advise on recursive tagging Denton Liu
2019-04-04 18:25 ` [PATCH v3 1/2] tag: fix formatting Denton Liu
2019-04-04 18:25 ` [PATCH v3 2/2] tag: advise on nested tags Denton Liu
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