Re: can I remove or move a tag in a remote repository?

Hi,

On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, Jim Meyering wrote:

Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref] wrote:

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I also think that git-fetch silently updating tags is wrong. Rather, it
should warn that the tags are different. But I've been wrong before.

AFAIK, no one wants git-fetch to update tags _silently_. I expected it 
give a diagnostic and fail by default -- and it already does that.

Umm. I just tested it, and it said "updating tag" without failing.

Pushing moved tags is serious business.  I was hoping to be able to use 
--force to override that fail-safe.

Hmmm. Probably Junio's patch is correct after all, since tags are special 
creatures: you do not expect them to change, but if, they can change 
arbitrarily (as opposed to branches, which should evolve linearly).

My goal is to maintain a symbolic reference "cvs-head" that points
to the newest git trunk node that's been mirrored to a CVS repository.

But is that not just tracking another branch?

Without even considering any other option, I chose to use a lightweight
tag for that purpose, since I have a conceptual view that it's a label I
can move from one referent to another.  It strikes me as counter-intuitive
to use a temporary git "branch" that way.  Would that even work, removing
it and recreating it all the time?

Yes, it would. Remember: a branch in git is just a named ref. It 
literally used to be a 41-byte file pointing to the tip of the branch in 
the ancestor graph. And you can update it with git-update-ref.

So, a branch in git is very much the movable label you are looking for.

Ciao,
Dscho