On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 2:16 PM, Paul Webster <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 1:24 PM, Bob Brodt <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I need to "move" a tag to include the most commit, so I first tried this:
>>
>
> Something you want to be careful about.  When you force push a branch, on
> the next pull everybody finds out about it via the discrepancy between
> branch and origin/branch.  But I think if you force change a tag, everybody
> that has already pulled that tag will keep the old version.  Git won't
> auto-update an existing tag in a local repo.  Now it might not be a problem
> if you don't have a lot of contributors pulling your repo frequently, but
> you should make them aware on your *-dev list.  If they delete the tag and
> pull again, they'll get the correct tag.
>

they should also get the updated tags if they run
git fetch -f origin

-Matthias
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