On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 11:43:52AM -0700, Bryan Turner wrote: > > I don't think I've ever seen a tag-to-a-tag in the wild, but I wouldn't > > be surprised if somebody has found a use for it. For example, because > > tags can be signed, I can make a signature of your signature, showing a > > cryptographic chain of custody. > > For a while the Atlassian Bamboo team followed a workflow where they > would do a build in CI, tag that build and then deploy it to a sandbox > environment for smoke testing. If it passed the smoke tests, it would > get "promoted" from the sandbox environment to internal instances used > by the various teams to do their builds. When a sandbox build was > "promoted", they'd create a tag of the sandbox build's tag to have > traceability between the two environments. > > I'm not advocating for or judging that workflow one way or another, > and the Bamboo team has since moved on to a different workflow. I just > thought I'd share it as a tag-of-tag workflow that I've seen a real > team using. (There was one place in Bitbucket Server's code where we > didn't handle recursive tags correctly, so their workflow caused some > errors that I needed to make some adjustments for. As a result, > Bitbucket Server's test suite now includes tests that cover tag-of-tag > behaviors.)
Thanks, I always like hearing these kinds of data points. If nothing else, it's a good reminder that if Git has behaved some way for many years, then _somebody_ is likely to have taken advantage of it, whether we considered it a possibility or not. :) -Peff
