From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chris Rorvick Subject: Re: git push tags Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2012 14:59:01 -0500 Message-ID: References: <508D7628.10509@kdbg.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: Angelo Borsotti , git To: Johannes Sixt X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Oct 28 20:59:17 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TSZ0u-0002KD-Av for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Sun, 28 Oct 2012 20:59:16 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753405Ab2J1T7E (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Oct 2012 15:59:04 -0400 Received: from mail-lb0-f174.google.com ([209.85.217.174]:48023 "EHLO mail-lb0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752923Ab2J1T7C (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Oct 2012 15:59:02 -0400 Received: by mail-lb0-f174.google.com with SMTP id n3so2622866lbo.19 for ; Sun, 28 Oct 2012 12:59:01 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=xnqv93bOKAzO2lwmDegBg3/MP/wXQScq4t9zoiBO2J8=; b=XsnaaiA4tImY7OEQLeXg7XnJv5Zs4M1jYCP4mszqzLk1bKDolCu0NxhaYf2qk5vhSq UI0ffBh75weFS321uW+pEYuKBdB7BQbIbHTB3N6zsaQDDUhqIJhtRWrjXOave+315cpz uJFMubClOtbZE17wiUz7HxRA7v66xqW1mfHNXHgDox8jOSQaR1hOlSIb/70UwVH0sLhT MQ2BJZ1j6NnvgFApYMS7kygylTkOqmZSPkbFff2NyWFnp54ujF7fDfRvaT8m7wFFpVnd +NrJvC29tAUaD5gXG4Do+yyAWEh2GBestn78/ww3h3gezCPVFKcInPr9j0TGKOh6zA4j 9rgQ== Received: by 10.112.11.35 with SMTP id n3mr9376923lbb.79.1351454341364; Sun, 28 Oct 2012 12:59:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.2.45 with HTTP; Sun, 28 Oct 2012 12:59:01 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <508D7628.10509@kdbg.org> X-Google-Sender-Auth: jeWiJA_o3tgmyMGQ4NsXkKh9SVo Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 1:15 PM, Johannes Sixt wrote: > Tags are refs, just like branches. "Tags don't move" is just a > convention, and git doesn't even respect it (except possibly in one > place[1]). You can't reseat tags unless you use -f, which is exactly the > same with branches, which you can't reseat unless you use -f. > > [1] By default, git fetch does not fetch tags that it already has. Also, git checkout puts you on a detached HEAD. This seems pretty significant with regard to Git respecting a "tags don't move" convention. Chris Rorvick