"Chris O'Kelly" <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > To reiterate and clarify I'm not saying the undesirable behavior > is a built in part of git, just a feature of our hosting > platform's Git deployment mechanisms, although if what you mean is > that the post-receive hook on the receiving end shouldn't be > getting passed pushed tag refs that the local git believed to be > already up to date on the remote (as of most recent fetch), then > yeah... that is weird because it seems to be the behavior in this > case. I just checked. $ rm -fr new && mkdir new && cd new $ git init src && git init --bare dst $ cd src $ echo "(date;cat) >pushlog" >.git/hooks/pre-push $ chmod +x .git/hooks/pre-push $ git commit -m 'initial' --allow-empty $ git tag -m 'initial' initial Push only the branch: $ GIT_TRACE_PACKET=1 git push ../dst master 2>&1 | grep 'push>' 11:07:26.... packet: push> 0000... 66ba... refs/heads/master\0report-st... 11:07:26.... packet: push> 0000 $ cat pushlog Wed Apr 15 11:07:26 PDT 2015 refs/heads/master 66ba... refs/heads/master 0000... In the packet trace, we can see that we told the remote to update 'master', and the pre-push logger also records the same. Then push with --follow-tags: $ GIT_TRACE_PACKET=1 git push --follow-tags ../dst master 2>&1 | grep 'push>' 11:09:53.... packet: push> 0000... 30fa... refs/tags/initial\0report-st... 11:09:53.... packet: push> 0000 $ cat pushlog Wed Apr 15 11:09:53 PDT 2015 refs/tags/initial 30fa... refs/tags/initial 0000... We can see that we told the remote to store the tag, which matches what the pre-push saw. And then an empty push: $ GIT_TRACE_PACKET=1 git push --follow-tags ../dst master 2>&1 | grep 'push>' 11:11:23.... packet: push> 0000 $ cat pushlog Wed Apr 15 11:11:23 PDT 2015 We tell them to do nothing, and pre-push saw nothing. For a good measure, let's advance the branch and push it out: $ git commit --allow-empty -m second $ GIT_TRACE_PACKET=1 git push --follow-tags ../dst master 2>&1 | grep 'push>' 11:13:43.... packet: push> 66ba... e711... refs/heads/master\0report-st... 11:13:43.... packet: push> 0000 $ cat pushlog Wed Apr 15 11:13:43 PDT 2015 refs/heads/master e711... refs/heads/master 66ba... We notice that the tag is up to date and do not tell them to do anything to it, and pre-push did not see the tag either. As far as I can see so far, the behaviour of the underlying push (i.e. what we decide to tell the remote to update) is sensible, and what pre-push is told we are doing by the command is consistent with what is really pushed. So.... > Anyway it sounds like the answer here is that it really isn't a > feasible task in a client side hook, and we should stick with the > current solution of "Don't use the GUI to push to Live" for now, which > is fine; I should probably stop trying to script around every single > problem anyway (https://xkcd.com/1319/). It appears that your "GUI" is a broken implementation of Git, that tells the other side to update what it did not even send, and that is what is causing the trouble, perhaps? -- 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