Re: Pulling tags from git.git

Junio C Hamano wrote:

Andreas Ericsson [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

With the git or git+ssh protocol, tags will be autofollowed
when you do a pull (only signed tags, I think).  The
auto-following is done by detecting tags that are fetched,

Ah, you are correct.  We do not follow lightweight tags; I am
not sure if we should.

I'm fairly sure we shouldn't. The default update-hook prevents them (if enabled), and I can't for the life of me think of why anyone would want to distribute such tags.

OTOH, preventing unannotated tags from being pushed seems like a better way than to not have the ability to auto-follow those same tags. After all, it's better to discourage than to disallow.

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