On Sun, Aug 20, 2017 at 03:47:28AM -0400, Jeff King wrote: > Yeah, I don't think we want to go back to the original behavior. I agree > that it is partially to blame for the inconsistency that started this > thread, but I think on balance it has saved much more confusion than it > has started. And we can address that inconsistency with better tag rules > (like the "autofollow if we wrote any real refs" thing). > > I don't have a patch for that yet, so if anybody feels like taking a > look, it would be much appreciated. Also: I don't think we've seen a patch yet for documenting the current auto-follow behavior. Even if we don't make a behavior change, let's not forget to improve that, which should be much less work. :) -Peff