On 02/19/2014 11:58 PM, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Wednesday 2014-02-19 21:01, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> Jan Engelhardt <[email protected]> writes:
>>> The release notes for 1.9.0 read:
>>>
>>>> * The "--tags" option to "git fetch" no longer tells the command to
>>>> fetch _only_ the tags. It instead fetches tags _in addition to_
>>>> what are fetched by the same command line without the option.
>>>
>>> I think the release notes should also say -- like it was done
>>> extensively for git add -- how to get back the old
>>> behavior (perhaps through now-different commands).
>>
>> Perhaps, but the release note is not a place to repeat what the
>> documentation already teaches---it primarily is to enumerate the
>> changed areas, to highlight the things users may want to look up in the
>> documentation, to give them a starting point.
>>
>> You would do something like this, I would think:
>>
>> git fetch $there 'refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*'
>
> Looking at it from one more angle, `git fetch r --tags` and
> `git push r --tags` is now no longer symmetric :(
I'm glad you brought this up, because I didn't really think about
whether "git push" would need changes parallel to those in "git fetch".
I use "git push" in very conservative ways, so I don't know its ins and
outs. What scenarios do you find asymmetric? Were they more symmetric
before?
Perhaps you don't like that when some branch is configured for pushing
via remote.$remote.push, so that
git push $remote
would push something, then you would expect
git push --tags $remote
to push the same something *plus* the tags. But I'm not sure that is
desirable. Pushing is a lot more traumatic than fetching, because any
mistakes are obvious to all of your collaborators. So I think it is OK
that the command is more reticent about pushing things that were
specified implicitly.
One thing I personally don't like is that
git push $remote --all --tags
is not allowed. I would expect it to push all branches and all tags.
But at least it just emits an error rather than doing something unexpected.
Michael
--
Michael Haggerty
[email protected]
http://softwareswirl.blogspot.com/
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in
the body of a message to [email protected]
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
