Re: [PATCHv3] git-tag man: when to use lightweight or annotated tags

["Philip Oakley" <philipoakley@iee.org>]

From: "Daniele Segato" <daniele.segato@gmail.com>
> On 07/26/2013 09:06 PM, Jeff King wrote:
>> On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 07:33:01PM +0200, Daniele Segato wrote:
>>
>>> 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>
>>
>> The intent of your patch seems reasonable to me. There are a few 
>> minor
>> language and typographical mistakes, and the patch itself is
>> whitespace-damaged.
>
> Hi Jeff,
>
> thanks for the feedback, very appreciated.
>
> But I don't understand what's wrong with the whitespaces.
>
> Can you explain to me what's wrong and how I can avoid the issue?
>
> I use thunderbird in text mode to send emails, should I use something 
> else? what?

Try 'git format-patch' and 'git send-email'. The format-patch man page 
even has a note about Thunderbird corruptions.

Philip

>
>>
>> I also do not know that it is accurate to say "most git commands 
>> ignore
>> lightweight tags". It is really only "naming" ones like "git 
>> describe".
>>
>> Here is a re-send of your patch with the fixups I would recommend.
>>
>
> Thanks, it's obviously better.
>
> I'll send this new version as soon as you or someone else explain me 
> how to fix the whitespace damage.
>
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