Hi Mauro, On Thu, 30 Oct 2014 08:09:34 -0200 Mauro Carvalho Chehab <[email protected]> wrote: > > Em Thu, 30 Oct 2014 09:24:45 +1100 > Stephen Rothwell <[email protected]> escreveu: > > > The only ways I know around this is to either merge the commit > > associated with the tag or do a (hard) reset to the tag. > > A hard reset to the tag would likely be a bad idea, as it would break > the sub-maintainers trees that are based on my tree.
I should have said that I don't expect you to change your tree at the
moment, just for that reason. But maybe next time.
> I generally use "git pull" for that, as the man page says that the
> default behavior is to do fast forward:
> "--ff
> When the merge resolves as a fast-forward, only update
> the branch pointer, without creating a merge commit.
> This is the default behavior."
>
> It seems that the man page is then outdated for signed tags, or,
> eventually, we need to make --ff explicit on this case.
I think that --ff overrides this behaviour. Doing "git merge
'<tag>^{}'" works, but you can't use that with "git pull".
> I'll try the approach of merging the associated commit next time,
> but this is something that it is easy to forget.
I don't think it is a really big problem but it would be nicer for
everyone.
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Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell [email protected]
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