Re: tags and patches

On 6/14/07, Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref] wrote:

Hi,

On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, Geoff Russell wrote:

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On 6/13/07, Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref] wrote:

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Hi,

On Wed, 13 Jun 2007, Geoff Russell wrote:

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Dear gits,

;-)

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[...]

       git tag v1.1
       git format-patch v1.0
       cd /tmp/newmyrepo
       git am ~/myrepo/THEPATCHNAME

Where is tag v1.1 ?

Tags are not propagated with patches. Sorry.

Is this considered to be a bug to be eventually fixed or a feature?

AFAIK patches are not supposed to _contain_ patches.

Is this a typo? I expected patches to contain tags, not other patches.

What you want is probably a bundle. You don't want a collection of diffs
with comments on them, but you want a collection to reacreate the history
the other side has.

I didn't know about bundles but do now.  However "git bundle --help" tells
me "No manual entry for git-bundle" despite
git-bundle.html being in the Documentation directory.

I'm trying to work out if I want to use git to manage a software distribution
problem. I distribute release v1.0 to people then later I want to email them
a patch to take them from v1.0 to v1.1.  I can probably live without
the tags, but
am just surprised that patches don't send them.


Cheers,
Geoff

Ciao,
Dscho