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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Robert Dailey <rcdailey.lists@gmail•com>
Cc: Git <git@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Proposal for pruning tags
Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2014 10:18:40 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqa99qq7m7.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHd499A2c09am7iFU9st-9MiNqBh_2SSyMqm+54cKL+Yq27fWA@mail.gmail.com> (Robert Dailey's message of "Fri, 6 Jun 2014 08:54:30 -0500")

Robert Dailey <rcdailey.lists@gmail•com> writes:

> ... Having git clean up tags
> automatically would really help with this, even though you may not
> feel it's the responsibility of Git. It's more of a usability issue,

I agree with "Having ... help with this".  I did not say at all that
it is not something Git should and can try to help.  I also agree
with it is a usability issue.

The thing is, the word "automatically" in your "clean up tags
automatically" is still too loose a definition of what we want, and
we cannot come up with a way to help users without tightening that
looseness.  As you said, you are looking for something that can tell
between two kinds of tags that locally exist without having a copy
at the 'origin':

 - ones that you do not want to keep
 - others that you haven't pushed to (or forgot to push to) 'origin'

without giving the users a way to help Git to tell these two kinds
apart and only remove the former.

So...

  reply	other threads:[~2014-06-06 17:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-06-05 14:51 Proposal for pruning tags Robert Dailey
2014-06-05 20:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-06-06 13:54   ` Robert Dailey
2014-06-06 17:18     ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2014-06-11  9:25 ` Michael Haggerty

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