Re: please consider remove those tags named master, which is ambigous with master branch

To Smurf and Andrew:
  Did you notice that there's a tag named "master" in the smurf
mm-trees.git repo,
this would confuse the git and the users, please consider remove the
"master" tag, OK?

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From: rae l <redacted>
Date: Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 12:48 AM
Subject: please consider remove those tags named master, which is
ambigous with master branch
To: Matthias Urlichs <redacted>

please consider remove those tags named master, which is ambigous with
master branch

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/smurf/linux-trees.git;a=tags

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To Git developers:
  I found that different git subcommand have inconsitent processing
about ambiguous refname,

git show will take "master" tag first,
while git tag -v will take "master" branch first,

So what's your suggestion to fix this? Just simple remove ambiguous refnames?

Or we can add a feature to allow same refname in different namespaces
(tags and branches)?
Such as "-b" to refer a branch while "-t" to refer a tag name? Else
how to distinguish them?

gektop@tux ~/sforge/linux-2.6 0 $ PAGER= git show master
warning: refname 'master' is ambiguous.
commit 05230bd16821e2ec80321d72e97e7a2b1a07c6f2
Author:     Adrian Bunk [off-list ref]
AuthorDate: Sat Jul 30 00:45:08 2005 +0000
Commit:     Matthias Urlichs [off-list ref]
CommitDate: Mon Aug 1 05:16:36 2005 -0700

    sound-oss-sequencer_syms-unexport-reprogram_timer

    This patch remoes an unneeded EXPORT_SYMBOL.

    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton [off-list ref]

diff --git a/sound/oss/sequencer_syms.c b/sound/oss/sequencer_syms.c
index 45edfd7..5d00879 100644
--- a/sound/oss/sequencer_syms.c
+++ b/sound/oss/sequencer_syms.c

@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(sequencer_timer);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(sound_timer_init);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(sound_timer_interrupt);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(sound_timer_syncinterval);
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(reprogram_timer);

 /* Tuning */

gektop@tux ~/sforge/linux-2.6 0 $ git tag -v master
error: 05230bd16821e2ec80321d72e97e7a2b1a07c6f2: cannot verify a
non-tag object of type commit.
error: could not verify the tag 'master'


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Denis Cheng Renquan