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From: Santiago Torres <santiago@nyu.edu>
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] verify-tag: add --check-name flag
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On Tue, Jun 07, 2016 at 03:35:07PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 3:29 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> > or even:
> >
> >   git tag --show-tag-name foo/v1.0
> >
> > when refs/remotes/foo/v1.0 exists?
> >
> > The rule right now is generally that "git tag" takes actual tag names.
> 
> Ahh, I forgot about that. Yes, indeed the command does not work
> like other Git commands, which would just let generic revision parser
> to accept an object name from anywhere. Probably it was a mistake,
> because "git tag --verify $T" may find refs/tags/$T but that may not
> necessarily mean "git checkout $T^0" would give you that exact
> tree state, but it is too late to change now.
> 

Sorry I'm trying to follow this. Would it be best to then have

    verify-tag [--check-name=tagname] (tag-ref|tag-name|sha1)?

and

    tag -v [--check-name] (tag-name)

Or would --format still work better?

Thanks!
-Santiago.