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From: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
To: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Cc: "Git Mailing List" <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Jeff King" <peff@peff.net>,
	"Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>,
	"Robert Dailey" <rcdailey.lists@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] tag: prevent recursive tags
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2019 21:57:06 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABPp-BGKWxJVGfQC3imj8Z6RHxQ6zLOGRpkOjyn93a3RxmE0Lw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c371a653b4049256f3427e467b144385ee47ef43.1553586707.git.liu.denton@gmail.com>

On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 12:56 AM Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Robert Dailey reported confusion on the mailing list about a recursive
> tag which was most likely created by mistake. Jeff King noted that this
> isn't a very common case so, most likely, creating a tag-to-a-tag is a
> user-error.
>
> Prevent mistakes by erroring and providing advice on recursive tags,
> unless "--allow-recursive-tag" is specified. Fix tests that fail as a
> result of this change.

Any chance we could use the term "nested tag" instead of "recursive tag"?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-03-27  4:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-03-21 16:59 Strange annotated tag issue Robert Dailey
2019-03-21 19:04 ` Bryan Turner
2019-03-21 19:39   ` Jeff King
2019-03-21 19:29 ` Jeff King
2019-03-25 13:50   ` Robert Dailey
2019-03-25 14:49     ` Jeff King
2019-03-25 15:31       ` Robert Dailey
2019-03-25 18:43       ` Bryan Turner
2019-03-25 23:36         ` Jeff King
2019-03-25 19:19       ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-03-25 23:37         ` Jeff King
2019-03-26  7:53           ` [PATCH 0/3] tag: prevent recursive tags Denton Liu
2019-03-26  7:53             ` [PATCH 1/3] " Denton Liu
2019-03-26  8:51               ` Denton Liu
2019-03-26 10:10               ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-03-27  4:57               ` Elijah Newren [this message]
2019-03-27 10:27                 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-03-28 19:02                   ` Robert Dailey
2019-03-26  7:53             ` [PATCH 2/3] t7004: ensure recursive tag behavior is working Denton Liu
2019-03-26 10:11               ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-03-26  7:53             ` [PATCH 3/3] git-tag.txt: document --allow-recursive-tag option Denton Liu
2019-03-26 10:16               ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-03-26 16:18             ` [PATCH 0/3] tag: prevent recursive tags Jeff King
2019-04-02  5:38             ` [PATCH v2 0/2] tag: prevent nested tags Denton Liu
2019-04-02  5:38               ` [PATCH v2 1/2] tag: fix formatting Denton Liu
2019-04-02  5:38               ` [PATCH v2 2/2] tag: prevent nested tags Denton Liu
2019-04-02 23:03                 ` [PATCH v2.5 " Denton Liu
2019-04-03  7:32                   ` Junio C Hamano
2019-04-03  8:49                     ` Junio C Hamano
2019-04-03 18:26                       ` Robert Dailey
2019-04-04  9:32                         ` Junio C Hamano
2019-04-04 13:47                           ` Robert Dailey
2019-04-04 21:50                             ` Junio C Hamano
2019-04-05  2:51                               ` Robert Dailey
2019-04-03 18:16                     ` Johannes Sixt
2019-04-03 21:33                     ` Denton Liu
2019-04-04  2:02                       ` Jeff King
2019-04-04  9:31                         ` Junio C Hamano
2019-04-04 12:27                           ` Jeff King
2019-04-04 21:54                             ` Junio C Hamano
2019-04-04 22:12                               ` Jeff King
2019-04-11 18:40                             ` Eckhard Maaß
2019-04-12  3:21                               ` Junio C Hamano
2019-04-05  0:36                           ` Elijah Newren
2019-04-05  5:29                             ` Junio C Hamano
2019-04-04 18:25               ` [PATCH v3 0/2] tag: advise on recursive tagging Denton Liu
2019-04-04 18:25               ` [PATCH v3 1/2] tag: fix formatting Denton Liu
2019-04-04 18:25               ` [PATCH v3 2/2] tag: advise on nested tags Denton Liu

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