"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 11:10:32AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>
>> > On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 5:53 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >> Looks like push can't resolve tags to commits.
>> >> Why is that?
>> >>
>> >> linux$ git push -f $PWD v3.10-rc2:refs/heads/vhost-next
>> >
>> > Perhaps v3.10-rc2^{}. Yeah, totally and completely not-user-friendly,
>>
>> More commonly "v3.10-rc2^0:vhost-next", if you are truly pushing it
>> out to a remote repository, but then it invites a puzzlement "What
>> do you plan to do next after pushing? The only reason v3.10-rc2 is
>> used is because there is not yet a local branch that will host the
>> vhost-next changes that is built on top of that tag (otherwise you
>> would be pushing that branch to vhost-next)".
>>
>> But in this particular case, you are force-pushing into the current
>> repository, and it is spelled much more commonly
>>
>> git branch -f vhost-next v3.10-rc2
>>
>> I would think.
>
> That was just a bad example though, I really use it for
> push to remove.
Then it invites a puzzlement as you can see above.
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