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broken tags in coreutils.git

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From: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org, Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
Subject: broken tags in coreutils.git
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2016 11:03:46 -0500

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Newer git is more picky about what constitutes a well-formed tag.
coreutils.git was created by older conversion tools that took shortcuts
in creating tags that now trigger warnings/failures with newer git (276
such broken tags).  See these threads in automake and findutils for
comparison, using a script from Kyle McKay to recreate back-dated fixed
tags of the same name:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/findutils-patches/2016-10/msg00004.html
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/findutils-patches/2016-10/msg00014.html
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-automake/2016-06/msg00004.html
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-automake/2016-10/msg00003.html

I tried to correct the broken tags in coreutils.git, but unlike the
other two repositories, coreutils.git is more strongly locked down, and
complains with my attempt to update tags, with messages like:

remote: *** Deleting a tag is not allowed in this repository
remote: error: hook declined to update refs/tags/textutils-1_12_1

I'm hoping Jim knows the magic for how to (temporarily) suspend the
hooks and make the correction; in the meantime, I'm opening this bug
report to track that we still need to do the work.

Jim, feel free to take discussion offline, since configuration to
temporarily weaken hooks may not be the best idea to publically archive...

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Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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From: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>
To: 24794 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, jim <at> meyering.net
Subject: Re: bug#24794: broken tags in coreutils.git
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2016 13:07:06 -0500

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On 10/25/2016 11:03 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
> Newer git is more picky about what constitutes a well-formed tag.

> I'm hoping Jim knows the magic for how to (temporarily) suspend the
> hooks and make the correction; in the meantime, I'm opening this bug
> report to track that we still need to do the work.
> 
> Jim, feel free to take discussion offline, since configuration to
> temporarily weaken hooks may not be the best idea to publically archive...

We've sorted out the details off-list (thanks also to Assaf), and I have
completed the conversion.  The attached file 'broken' is the list of all
the tags that I regenerated.  If you have an existing clone, git will
not replace your local broken tags by default, but you can fix your
local side by:

$ git tag -d $(cat broken)
$ git fetch origin --tags

then, optionally use git prune to remove the now-dangling broken tags.

I'll leave this bug open just a bit longer, until we have undone the
temporary changes that we had to make to bypass normal tag deletion
prevention.

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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From: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>
To: 24794 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#24794: broken tags in coreutils.git
Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2018 01:09:35 -0600

tags 24794 fixed
close 24794
stop

(triaging old bugs)

On 2016-10-25 12:07 p.m., Eric Blake wrote:
> We've sorted out the details off-list (thanks also to Assaf), and I have
> completed the conversion.  The attached file 'broken' is the list of all
> the tags that I regenerated.  If you have an existing clone, git will
> not replace your local broken tags by default, but you can fix your
> local side by:
> 
> $ git tag -d $(cat broken)
> $ git fetch origin --tags
> 
> then, optionally use git prune to remove the now-dangling broken tags.
> 
> I'll leave this bug open just a bit longer, until we have undone the
> temporary changes that we had to make to bypass normal tag deletion
> prevention.
> 

I believe this is OK by now, and so closing.
If someone is still experiencing git/tag issues, please reply to this 
thread.

-assaf

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