git cvs/ tags

Jim Meyering jim@meyering.net
Sun May 17 13:53:00 GMT 2009


[re-replying, but now to libc-alpha, since libc-hacker bounces
 mail from me as a non-member]

Roland McGrath wrote:
> So now we have the git repository.  All hail the git repository.  Thanks,
> Jim!  But we have a couple of lingering issues from the CVS conversion.
...
> We have no git tags at all.  What happened to our cvs/* migrated tags?
> That is a bunch of lost information, including the exact points in history
> of various past releases, Fedora builds, etc.  What gives?

Blush.  I forgot to push those.  It's a separate step.
I've just done this:

  git push ssh://sourceware.org/git/glibc.git tag '*'



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