From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Daniele Segato <daniele.segato@gmail.com>,
Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
Marc Branchaud <marcnarc@xiplink.com>,
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv3] git-tag man: when to use lightweight or annotated tags
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 12:36:43 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130726193643.GH14690@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130726190602.GC29799@sigill.intra.peff.net>
Jeff King wrote:
> --- a/Documentation/git-tag.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/git-tag.txt
> @@ -42,6 +42,17 @@ is used to specify custom GnuPG binary.
> GnuPG key for signing. The configuration variable `gpg.program`
> is used to specify custom GnuPG binary.
>
> +Tag objects (created with `-a`, `s`, or `-u`) are called "annotated"
> +tags; they contain a creation date, the tagger name and e-mail, a
> +tagging message, and an optional GnuPG signature. Whereas a
> +"lightweight" tag is simply a name for an object (usually a commit
> +object).
> +
> +Annotated tags are meant for release while lightweight tags are meant
> +for private or temporary object labels. For this reason, some git
> +commands for naming objects (like `git describe`) will ignore
> +lightweight tags by default.
Very readable, and I think this is a good start.
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Eventually the description section should probably be tweaked to start
by explaining what the command is actually for. ;-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-26 19:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-24 10:17 git tag usability issue: Lightweight vs Annotated confusion for the end user (ex. git describe default) Daniele Segato
2013-07-24 20:34 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-07-25 13:45 ` [PATCH] git-tag man: when to use lightweight or annotated tags Daniele Segato
2013-07-25 14:47 ` Marc Branchaud
2013-07-26 8:44 ` Daniele Segato
2013-07-26 8:46 ` Daniele Segato
2013-07-26 14:51 ` Marc Branchaud
2013-07-26 17:19 ` Daniele Segato
2013-07-26 17:33 ` [PATCHv3] " Daniele Segato
2013-07-26 19:06 ` Jeff King
2013-07-26 19:36 ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
2013-07-29 18:02 ` Daniele Segato
2013-08-07 12:32 ` Daniele Segato
2013-07-26 21:13 ` Marc Branchaud
2013-07-29 15:04 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-07-29 18:20 ` Daniele Segato
2013-07-27 10:39 ` Daniele Segato
2013-07-27 11:26 ` Philip Oakley
2013-07-27 11:45 ` Stefan Beller
2013-07-29 18:16 ` Daniele Segato
2013-07-26 21:13 ` [PATCH] " Marc Branchaud
2013-07-29 18:21 ` Daniele Segato
2013-07-25 13:48 ` git tag usability issue: Lightweight vs Annotated confusion for the end user (ex. git describe default) Daniele Segato
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