Remote helpers and signed tags

2013-04-07 Thread John Keeping
It appears to be impossible to push signed tags using a remote helper that supports only fast-export. This is reported against gitifyhg[1] but I think it is actually a Git issue. [1] https://github.com/buchuki/gitifyhg/issues/59 I can reproduce the error using a trivial remote helper (run this

Re: Remote helpers and signed tags

2013-04-07 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi John, John Keeping wrote: It appears to be impossible to push signed tags using a remote helper that supports only fast-export. [...] fatal: Encountered signed tag 572a535454612a046e7dd7404dcca94d6243c788; use --signed-tag=mode to handle it. fatal: Error while running

Re: Remote helpers and signed tags

2013-04-07 Thread Sverre Rabbelier
On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 2:46 PM, Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com wrote: The remote helper infrastructure is certainly being unhelpful here. I wonder if transport-helper should just pass --signed-tag=strip and be done with it (leaving open the possibility of a capability to switch to