Re: diff against a tag ?

On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 03:22:21PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

 > > Hmm, in a fresh rsync from your kernel tree, I get this..
 > > tagged commit a2755a80f40e5794ddc20e00f781af9d6320fafb (v2.6.12-rc3) in 0397236d43e48e821cce5bbe6a80a1a56bb7cc3a
 > > tagged commit 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 (v2.6.12-rc2) in 9e734775f7c22d2f89943ad6c745571f1930105f
 > > expect dangling commits - potential heads - due to lack of head information
 > > dangling tag 0397236d43e48e821cce5bbe6a80a1a56bb7cc3a
 > > dangling commit 9acf6597c533f3d5c991f730c6a1be296679018e
 > > dangling tag 9e734775f7c22d2f89943ad6c745571f1930105f
 > > 
 > > Is that last part to be expected ?
 > It even says so: "expect dangling commits".

heh, I was hex-blinded.
 
 > The tags will always be dangling, since nothing refers to them. Once you 
 > have them listed in your tag database (ie you've created files that 
 > mention them in .git/refs/tags or something), you can tell fsck about 
 > them, and fsck won't complain. 
 > 
 > Something like
 > 
 > 	fsck-cache --unreachable $(cat .git/refs/*/*)
 > 
 > would do it (and depending on exactly how cogito ends up recording them).

great.

		Dave