Re: Issue with gitweb + tag + branch of the same name from master branch commit

"Nicholas A. Bellinger" [off-list ref] writes:

I have recently been trying to make a tag and branch of the same name

But why?  Why do you want to confuse git and yourself?

from a previous <COMMIT> on a master branch on a kernel.org tree using
the following commands:

	# Create the tag:
	git tag -a lio-x.y <COMMIT>
	# Push the tags:
	git push --tags origin
	# Fetch to be sure
	git fetch origin
	# Make tagged branch:
	git checkout -b lio-x.y <COMMIT>
	# Make <NEW_COMMIT> to lio-x.y and commit
        git commit frob
	# Switch back to master branch
	git checkout master
	# Push local branch to origin
	git push origin refs/heads/lio-x.y

At this point after pushing to origin, I can do a fresh clone of the
tree, and do a 'git checkout origin/lio-x.y and I see '<NEW_COMMIT>',
and the logs and blobs look as expected..

However, after checking gitweb log for branch lio-x.y on kernel.org, I
only see <COMMIT>, and not <NEW_COMMIT>, and all of the blobs in branch
lio-x.y still reference the original <COMMIT>, et al.

I guess that you meant here gitweb's 'log' / 'shortlog' view linked
from 'heads' view, don't you?
 

John Hawley has been helping to resolve the issue (I am just going to
use different tag/branch names instead), and hpa asked me to report this
as it is easy to reproduce with the gitweb version on kernel.org..

22:42 < warthog9> I would got show this to the git people, it *could*
                  just be an old bug in gitweb (ours is not particularly
                  up to date) but if I can replicate it here easily enough
                  I'm guessing there's still a bug elsewhere

This is an old and long fixed (or rather worked around) issue in
gitweb, fixed in bf901f8 (gitweb: disambiguate heads and tags withs
the same name, 2007-12-15)... well if by fixed you can consider
passing around "fully qualified" refnames, i.e. the 'shortlog' link in
'heads' view now uses 'refs/heads/frob', and not only 'frob'.

J.H., you might want to consider cherry-picking this... unless you
have done that, or independently fixed this issue.

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
ShadeHawk on #git