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From: Daniele Segato <daniele.segato@gmail.com>
To: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: [PATCH] git-tag man: when to use lightweight or annotated tags
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 15:45:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51F12BE6.80606@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vtxjj66kn.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

 From d0f4eca712e7cf74286bfab306763a8a571b6c95 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniele Segato <daniele.segato@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 15:33:18 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] git-tag man: when to use lightweight or annotated tags

stress the difference between the two with suggestion on when the user
should use one in place of the other.

Signed-off-by: Daniele Segato <daniele.segato@gmail.com>
---
  Documentation/git-tag.txt |    4 ++++
  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-tag.txt b/Documentation/git-tag.txt
index 22894cb..48f5504 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-tag.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-tag.txt
@@ -36,6 +36,10 @@ are absent, `-a` is implied.
  Otherwise just a tag reference for the SHA-1 object name of the commit 
object is
  created (i.e. a lightweight tag).

+Annotated and Lightweight tags are not the same thing for git and you 
shouldn't
+mix them up. Annotated tags are meant for release while lightweight 
tags are
+meant to tag random commits.
+
  A GnuPG signed tag object will be created when `-s` or `-u
  <key-id>` is used.  When `-u <key-id>` is not used, the
  committer identity for the current user is used to find the
-- 
1.7.10.4

  reply	other threads:[~2013-07-25 13:45 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   ` Daniele Segato [this message]
2013-07-25 14:47     ` [PATCH] git-tag man: when to use lightweight or annotated tags 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
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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