On Sat, 10 Feb 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > Although it is correct that the people who already saw the > original tag would not lose the tag object from their repository > when you publish a replacement tag, we have _always_ overwritten > the refs/tags/$tag to point at the new one, effectively losing > the original. > > * 0a623e7c (Jul 5, 2005) > In this version "git fetch $repo tag v2.6.13" would have done just > > echo "$head" >"$GIT_DIR/$destination" > > without checking if it already existed. Yes, but only if you actually explicitly asked for it, methinks. If you just do a "git pull", it won't do it. So I think it's ok. Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html