From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.180.0/23 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.0 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id D59C320248 for ; Mon, 25 Mar 2019 23:37:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1730063AbfCYXh0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Mar 2019 19:37:26 -0400 Received: from cloud.peff.net ([104.130.231.41]:35936 "HELO cloud.peff.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1726061AbfCYXh0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Mar 2019 19:37:26 -0400 Received: (qmail 5597 invoked by uid 109); 25 Mar 2019 23:37:26 -0000 Received: from Unknown (HELO peff.net) (10.0.1.2) by cloud.peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.94) with SMTP; Mon, 25 Mar 2019 23:37:26 +0000 Authentication-Results: cloud.peff.net; auth=none Received: (qmail 13476 invoked by uid 111); 25 Mar 2019 23:37:49 -0000 Received: from sigill.intra.peff.net (HELO sigill.intra.peff.net) (10.0.0.7) by peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.94) with (ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 encrypted) SMTP; Mon, 25 Mar 2019 19:37:49 -0400 Authentication-Results: peff.net; auth=none Received: by sigill.intra.peff.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Mon, 25 Mar 2019 19:37:24 -0400 Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2019 19:37:24 -0400 From: Jeff King To: =?utf-8?B?w4Z2YXIgQXJuZmrDtnLDsA==?= Bjarmason Cc: Robert Dailey , Git Subject: Re: Strange annotated tag issue Message-ID: <20190325233723.GD23728@sigill.intra.peff.net> References: <20190321192928.GA19427@sigill.intra.peff.net> <20190325144930.GA19929@sigill.intra.peff.net> <87tvfqbw3m.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <87tvfqbw3m.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 08:19:25PM +0100, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > > $ git tag -a mytag > > error: refusing to make a recursive tag > > hint: The object 'mytag' referred to by your new tag is already a tag. > > hint: > > hint: If you meant to create a tag of a tag, use: > > hint: > > hint: git tag -a -f mytag > > hint: > > hint: If you meant to tag the object that it points to, use: > > hint: > > hint: git tag -a mytag^{} > > > > It would be a minor annoyance to somebody who frequently makes > > tags-of-tags, but it leaves them with an escape hatch. > > Let's call that something like --allow-recursive-tag (inspired by > 'merge' --allow-unrelated-histories) so we don't confuse the desire to > create such a tag with clobbering an existing tag (which -f is > documented to do). Yeah, that's probably a good idea. Now we just need somebody to write the patch... -Peff