On Mon, Sep 05, 2016 at 05:51:41PM -0400, Jeff King wrote: > If you have a tag of a tag of a commit, and the middle tag isn't > otherwise reachable, then "pack-objects --include-tag" will not include > the middle tag, and certain invocations of "clone" will fail. See the > final patch below for the gory details. > > The first five patches are just test cleanup and modernization in > preparation (though note that the 3rd one actually fixes a minor bug in > the test script). > > [1/5]: t5305: move cleanup into test block > [2/5]: t5305: drop "dry-run" of unpack-objects > [3/5]: t5305: use "git -C" > [4/5]: t5305: simplify packname handling > [5/5]: pack-objects: walk tag chains for --include-tag BTW, this is not a new regression; the problem dates back to the origin of the "include-tag" feature. So there is no urgency to the fix, as it has been with us for almost a decade. I built it on master, but it should apply cleanly to maint. -Peff