Fwd: ffado git repository

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On Sun, Apr 04, 2010 at 10:52:49AM -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote:
>On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 04:40, Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> wrote:
>> On Sat, Apr 03, 2010 at 09:24:02PM -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote:
>>>
>>> Sorry for answering privately.
>>>
>>> On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 22:20, Felipe Sateler <fsateler at gmail.com> 
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 02:48, Adrian Knoth 
>>>> <adi at drcomp.erfurt.thur.de> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sun, Sep 06, 2009 at 05:28:25PM -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I can't seem to update the repo. Is anyone else having this 
>>>>>> problem?
>>
>>>>> adi at chopin:/tmp/ffado$ git pull origin
>>>>> From git://git.debian.org/pkg-multimedia/ffado
>>>>>  ! [new tag]         debian/2.0~rc1+svn1539-1 ->
>>>>> debian/2.0~rc1+svn1539-1  (unable to update local ref)
>>>>>  ! [new tag]         debian/2.0~rc2+svn1569-1 ->
>>>>> debian/2.0~rc2+svn1569-1  (unable to update local ref)
>>>>>  ! [new tag]         debian/2.0~rc2+svn1569-2 ->
>>>>> debian/2.0~rc2+svn1569-2  (unable to update local ref)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Apparently git doesn't like tags with ~ in them.
>>
>> Correct - and git-buildpackage avoids them - so someone must've 
>> applied them by other means...
>>
>>
>>>> Is it possible to delete those tags?
>>
>> Yes.  I have done that now: Logged into git.debian.org, moved to 
>> git/pkg-multimedia/ffado.git and issued the "git tag -d ..." command 
>> there.
>>
>> ...and checked that the git is now clone'able.
>
>But the tags will reappear when someone that has them in their local 
>repo pushes with the --tags flag. Please everyone remove them from 
>their local copies.

Right.

Perhaps someone clever enough handling Git could come up with a hook to 
refuse accepting such tags.  That would probably be of general interest 
in Debian - and around the globe, so maybe already exist somewhere?!?


  - Jonas

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