"Michael S. Tsirkin" <m...@redhat.com> writes:

> On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 11:05:00AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> "Michael S. Tsirkin" <m...@redhat.com> writes:
>> 
>> > Looks like push can't resolve tags to commits.
>> > Why is that?
>> 
>> How else would you push a tag out?
>
> Well my reaction is, it seems to figure out it needs a commit and then
> instead of just getting it, it errors out.  Why not just DWIM?

Ahh, that one.

The local branch name hierarchy refs/heads/ is special in that you
cannot have a tag sitting at the tip, so when "push" decides to
update something under refs/heads/ on the receiving end, it may not
be a bad idea to peel it to a commit (and fail if it does not)
before creating a pack and telling the other end what the value of
the updated tip should be, and I do not think it will hurt anybody.

Restriction in the other direction (i.e. "if push does not go to
refs/tags/, unconditionally unwrap") is a no-no, though.

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