From 52ee9fb99bae465e574e3fb083541dcab556cda8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: JaeEun Kim <109906379+kyokuping@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2025 11:27:28 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] fix: accept semver range in ValidateReference

Signed-off-by: JaeEun Kim <109906379+kyokuping@users.noreply.github.com>
---
 pkg/registry/client.go | 4 ----
 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/pkg/registry/client.go b/pkg/registry/client.go
index 9eb189216..f2cdb7541 100644
--- a/pkg/registry/client.go
+++ b/pkg/registry/client.go
@@ -835,10 +835,6 @@ func (c *Client) ValidateReference(ref, version string, u *url.URL) (string, *ur
 	if version == "" {
 		// Use OCI URI tag as default
 		version = registryReference.Tag
-	} else {
-		if registryReference.Tag != "" && registryReference.Tag != version {
-			return "", nil, fmt.Errorf("chart reference and version mismatch: %s is not %s", version, registryReference.Tag)
-		}
 	}
 
 	if registryReference.Digest != "" {