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From: Daniele Segato <daniele.segato@gmail.com>
To: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Marc Branchaud <marcnarc@xiplink.com>,
	Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.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 19:33:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51F2B2CD.1030004@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51F2AFBA.4020602@gmail.com>

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 |    9 +++++++++
  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-tag.txt b/Documentation/git-tag.txt
index 22894cb..495eb71 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-tag.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-tag.txt
@@ -42,6 +42,15 @@ committer identity for the current user is used to 
find the
  GnuPG key for signing. 	The configuration variable `gpg.program`
  is used to specify custom GnuPG binary.

+The tag objects (created with `-a`, `s`, or `-u`) are called 
'annotated' tags,
+they contains a creation date, the tagger name and e-mail, a tagging 
message
+and, eventually, the GNUPG signing and verification data. While a
+'lightweight' tag is simply a name for an object (usually a commit object).
+
+'Annotated' tag are meant for release while 'lightweight' tags are meant
+for private or temporary object labels, thus most git commands ignore
+lightweight tags by default.
+

  OPTIONS
  -------
-- 
1.7.10.4

  reply	other threads:[~2013-07-26 17:33 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               ` Daniele Segato [this message]
2013-07-26 19:06                 ` [PATCHv3] " 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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