From: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
To: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Cc: "Git Mailing List" <git@vger.kernel.org>,
"Jeff King" <peff@peff.net>,
"Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>,
"Robert Dailey" <rcdailey.lists@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] tag: prevent recursive tags
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2019 21:57:06 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABPp-BGKWxJVGfQC3imj8Z6RHxQ6zLOGRpkOjyn93a3RxmE0Lw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c371a653b4049256f3427e467b144385ee47ef43.1553586707.git.liu.denton@gmail.com>
On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 12:56 AM Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Robert Dailey reported confusion on the mailing list about a recursive
> tag which was most likely created by mistake. Jeff King noted that this
> isn't a very common case so, most likely, creating a tag-to-a-tag is a
> user-error.
>
> Prevent mistakes by erroring and providing advice on recursive tags,
> unless "--allow-recursive-tag" is specified. Fix tests that fail as a
> result of this change.
Any chance we could use the term "nested tag" instead of "recursive tag"?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-03-27 4:57 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 [this message]
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
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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