Script to help to clone annotated tags

create-clone-tags.sh

#!/bin/bash

# This script clone a tag and add a v prefix to it
# All the tags are commit with the same author/email

set -u

# To force author and email we need to change the local configuration
git config user.name kapeka
git config user.email kapeka@users.sourceforge.net

git tag -l | grep '^4\.' | while read tag;do
   echo $tag
   commit=$(git cat-file tag $tag | sed -n 's/^object *\(.*\)$/\1/p')
   tagger_date=$(git cat-file tag $tag | egrep '^tagger .*<.+> [0-9]'| sed 's/^.*> *//')
   git cat-file tag $tag | sed '1,/^ *$/d' > tag-message
   GIT_COMMITTER_DATE=$tagger_date git tag -f -a -F tag-message "v$tag" $commit
done
rm -f tag-message
git config --remove-section user