hg-git and git tags handling

Abderrahim Kitouni a.kitouni at gmail.com
Mon Jul 20 10:22:14 CDT 2009


2009/7/20 Augie Fackler <durin42 at gmail.com>:
> I'm not as familiar as I'd like with Git's handling of tags - are they
> supposed to not change as in the usual tools won't let you without a
> --force, or they aren't supposed to change merely by convention of them
> being tags?
git tag won't let you change a tag without a --force, a git pull won't
pull any existing tags, even if they changed. (you need to delete the
tag and pull again)

>
> If the former, then maybe we can do something with the actual .hgtags file
> in an unrelated branch that gets saved in the repo, but that feels a bit
> messy to me.
I also thought about this, especially for annotated tags (they contain
a committer, a date, and can contain a gpg signature), but as you say,
this feels messy. we should make sure that the new branch doesn't get
in the way.

Abderrahim


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