Subject: Re: BUG?: git-filter-branch removes mergetags

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 13:26:34 -0700

Uwe Kleine-König  <[email-masked]> writes:

> 	--- /dev/fd/63	2014-09-23 21:07:49.987065017 +0200
> 	+++ /dev/fd/62	2014-09-23 21:07:49.991064988 +0200
> 	@@ -3,32 +3,6 @@
> 	 parent 954263938706bf62d36e81b6b49f313390f2ed35
> 	 author Linus Torvalds <[email-masked]> 1411488823 -0700
> 	 committer Linus Torvalds <[email-masked]> 1411488823 -0700
> 	-mergetag object 954263938706bf62d36e81b6b49f313390f2ed35
> 	- type commit
> ...
>
> I expected the signature to not disappear such that in the example above
> no change is introduced.

Yeah, I agree that the above shows that in the rewritten merge
commit, the side parent 95426393... has not changed from the
original and the mergetag can be taken as a still valid one.