On 26/05/19 17:51, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Sun, May 26, 2019 at 2:56 AM Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm.git tags/for-linus > > This says it's a tag, but it's not. It's just a commit pointer (also > called a "lightweight tag", because while it technically is exactly > the same thing as a branch, it's obviously in the tag namespace and > git will _treat_ it like a tag). > > Normally your tags are proper signed tags. So I'm not pulling this, > waiting for confirmation. Shell history shows that I typed git push kvm +HEAD:tags/for-linus (which matches the "git push kvm +HEAD:queue" that I often do, and therefore can be explained by muscle memory). The interesting thing is that not only git will treat lightweight tags like, well, tags: in addition, because I _locally_ had a tag object that pointed to the same commit and had the same name, git-request-pull included my local tag's message in its output! I wonder if this could be considered a bug. I have now pushed the actual tag object to the same place. Paolo
