Re: How to create tags outside of refs/tags?

Hi,

How about taking advantage of the fact that you do not have to treat tag
namespace as a global thing?  For the "release tool" to "get a commit ID"
and do something useful, the "release tool" must be working on a git
repository, and hopefully that repository is something other than the ones
developers directly play with (by checking out random branches in its
working tree and compiling, etc.).

These assumptions are all correct. The "release tool" works on his clone
of a central repo. The release tool may even modify the content (e.g. increasing
release numbers in project metadata files) and create new git commits.
In the end it wants to create tags/refs locally und push these tags back
so that in the central repo the commits are not gc'ed.

Something like:

cd <releaseRepo>
git fetch origin
git checkout <commitIdToRelease>
edit pom.xml; git add pom.xml
git commit -m "release ..."
git tag <releaseName>
git push origin 'refs/tags/<releaseName>:refs/releases/<releaseName>'

should do the job, or?