Subject: Re: Re* How to generate pull-request with info of signed tag

From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 22:21:21 +0530

On Tue, 20 Dec 2011 23:03:57 -0800, Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]> wrote:
> "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> > Also can we make .git/config remote stanza to have something like below
> >
> >
> >      fetch = +refs/tags/*:refs/tags/abc/*
> >
> > so that one can do
> >
> >    git fetch t-remote tag-name
> >
> > and that get stored to abc/tag-name 
> 
> You can do whatever you want to your own config file without asking anybody.
> 
> Having said that, the point of the recent change to allow you to pull this
> way (notice the lack of "tag")
> 
>     $ git pull $url $signed_tag_name
> 
> is so that you do not have to contaminate your own ref namespace with tags
> that are used to leave audit trails in the history graph.
> 

With an entry like below

[remote "github"]
        fetch = +refs/tags/*:refs/tags/origin/*
        url = git://github.com/kvaneesh/QEMU.git

when i do git fetch github for-anthony i get the below error

[master@QEMU]$ git fetch github for-anthony
>From git://github.com/kvaneesh/QEMU
 * tag               for-anthony -> FETCH_HEAD
[master@QEMU]$ less .git/config 

Also trying to do

[master@QEMU]$ git fetch git://github.com/kvaneesh/QEMU.git  for-anthony:aneesh/for-anthony
error: Trying to write non-commit object 12916047784615b7d8b879d9d39be6c1559e1b1b to branch refs/heads/aneesh/for-anthony
>From git://github.com/kvaneesh/QEMU
 ! [new branch]      for-anthony -> aneesh/for-anthony  (unable to update local ref)
 * [new tag]         for-anthony -> for-anthony

I understand that replacing the above with below works. But we should
not be required to specify refs/tags there right ?

[master@QEMU]$ git fetch git://github.com/kvaneesh/QEMU.git  refs/tags/for-anthony:refs/tags/aneesh/for-anthony

-aneesh