* should "git tag" option of "-a" conflict with "-s", "-u"?
@ 2017-09-14 10:08 Robert P. J. Day
2017-09-14 12:15 ` Jeff King
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From: Robert P. J. Day @ 2017-09-14 10:08 UTC (permalink / raw
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just noticed in "man git-tag":
1) "-a" explicitly claims to create an unsigned tag
2) both "-s" and "-u" both claim to create signed tags
should that mean that it should be an error to try to use "-a" in
combination with either of "-u" or "-s"? the synopsis does suggest
that you can use only one of those at a time:
git tag [-a | -s | -u <keyid>] ...
but i tested with (from memory) using both "-a" and "-s", and tag
actually tried to do it, but failed simply because i had no key.
clearly, though, it was making the attempt.
can someone clarify this?
rday
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* Re: should "git tag" option of "-a" conflict with "-s", "-u"?
2017-09-14 10:08 should "git tag" option of "-a" conflict with "-s", "-u"? Robert P. J. Day
@ 2017-09-14 12:15 ` Jeff King
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From: Jeff King @ 2017-09-14 12:15 UTC (permalink / raw
To: Robert P. J. Day; +Cc: Git Mailing list
On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 06:08:10AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> just noticed in "man git-tag":
>
> 1) "-a" explicitly claims to create an unsigned tag
> 2) both "-s" and "-u" both claim to create signed tags
>
> should that mean that it should be an error to try to use "-a" in
> combination with either of "-u" or "-s"? the synopsis does suggest
> that you can use only one of those at a time:
>
> git tag [-a | -s | -u <keyid>] ...
>
> but i tested with (from memory) using both "-a" and "-s", and tag
> actually tried to do it, but failed simply because i had no key.
> clearly, though, it was making the attempt.
>
> can someone clarify this?
I think the documentation could be a little more clear. "-a" just asks
to create a tag object, rather than a "lightweight" tag. Using "-s" asks
for a signature, which requires having a tag object, and thus implies
"-a".
So there's no point in using the two together (since "-s" already
implies "-a"), but it also doesn't hurt to do so.
-Peff
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