Can datalad push also be made to push tags?

[mih]

Origin: DataLad chatroom 2023-05-02

Can datalad push also be made to push tags?

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[mih]

datalad push is meant to work similar to git push and, importantly, honor its configuration. So the following is a demo how pushing tags works:

# set up a demo dataset
❯ datalad create ds
# demo git remote
❯ mkdir remote
❯ git -C remote init --bare
# register the remote in the dataset
❯ datalad siblings -d ds add -s origin --url /tmp/push/remote/
# configure all branches to be pushed by default
❯ git -C ds config --add remote.origin.push 'refs/heads/*'
# configure all tags to be pushed by default too
❯ git -C ds config --add remote.origin.push 'refs/tags/*'
# add a tag to the dataset
❯ git -C ds tag mytag
# push
❯ datalad push -d ds --to origin
publish(ok): . (dataset) [refs/heads/git-annex->origin:refs/heads/git-annex [new branch]]                      
publish(ok): . (dataset) [refs/heads/master->origin:refs/heads/master [new branch]]                            
publish(ok): . (dataset) [refs/tags/mytag->origin:refs/tags/mytag [new tag]]                                   

Other less "all-at-once" approaches should work in a similar fashion.

git version 2.39.1
datalad 0.18.3

[mih]

Fix in #52 but was not closed