Hi, On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> writes: > > > On Sun, 23 Mar 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > > >> If you tell filter-branch to filter a branch A and a tag T, as the > >> command is advertised to rewrite positive refs that were given from > >> the command line, isn't it natural to expect that the command would > >> attempt its best effort to rewrite such a tag object? > > > > The thing is: signed tags cannot be rewritten. > > I know that, and you know I know that if you read what you responded > again ;-) > > And I think stripping of gpg signature part is a reasonable best effort > for the command, _when_ the user told a signed tag to be rewritten. Yes. BUT. You can say "--all", and I actually expect quite a few people to do exactly that. And then you cannot really say "the user explicitely asked to have that signed tag rewritten". Ciao, Dscho -- 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
