Rubén Justo <rjusto@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > --- a/t/t7004-tag.sh > +++ b/t/t7004-tag.sh > @@ -97,6 +97,11 @@ test_expect_success 'HEAD is forbidden as a tagname' ' > test_must_fail git tag -a -m "useless" HEAD > ' > > +test_expect_success 'allow deleting a tag named HEAD' ' > + git update-ref refs/tags/HEAD HEAD && > + git tag -d HEAD > +' This concisely captures exactly what we want to see. The plumbing is still allowed to create something that the worldview given by the Git Porcelain UI may not like (so that people can create different UI) and our tool can still be usable to recover from a mistake of using HEAD as the name of a tag, which we more strongly discourage. Good idea. >> +test_expect_success 'HEAD is forbidden as a tagname' ' >> + test_when_finished "git tag -d HEAD || :" && > > I'm not considering this as a test for it :-) It is not. If "git tag HEAD" get broken in the future, the must-fail steps below may create such a tag, and we want to remove it before moving along.
