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From: Chris Rorvick <chris@rorvick.com>
Subject: Re: git push --force to update tag
Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2013 21:42:26 -0600
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On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 8:23 PM, =E4=B9=99=E9=85=B8=E9=8B=B0 <ch3cooli@g=
mail.com> wrote:
> about git 1.8.2
>
>  * "git push" now requires "-f" to update a tag, even if it is a
>    fast-forward, as tags are meant to be fixed points.
>
> Does the server side validate this? Do we need to upgrade git on
> server side to support this?

This check is made by the side doing the push.  There is no additional
validation done on the remote side so it does not need an updated
version of Git for this feature to work correctly.

Chris