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Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu> writes:

> On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 09:52:29PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> Although it is correct that the people who already saw the
>> original tag would not lose the tag object from their repository
>> when you publish a replacement tag, we have _always_ overwritten
>> the refs/tags/$tag to point at the new one, effectively losing
>> the original.
>
> So I have a suspicion that I have multiple tag objects with the same
> tag name (E2FSPROGS-1_26), from doing an hg conversion.  Is there an
> easy way to search all of the tag objects in my git repository to see
> if this is the case, so I can delete them lest they cause any
> confusion/problems?

"fsck --full" should report "dangling tag".