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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Daniele Segato <daniele.segato@gmail.com>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: git tag usability issue: Lightweight vs Annotated confusion for the end user (ex. git describe default)
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 13:34:00 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vtxjj66kn.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51EFA9A9.4010103@gmail.com> (Daniele Segato's message of "Wed, 24 Jul 2013 12:17:13 +0200")

Daniele Segato <daniele.segato@gmail.com> writes:

> 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.

Nicely explained.

This is one of those "we who worked on Git (not worked "with" Git)
for a long time _know_ it and do not need it to be explained, and we
didn't spot that it is not explained in the documentation for new
people."

Care to roll a documentation patch (and get a commit count for
yourself ;-)?

Thanks.

  reply	other threads:[~2013-07-24 20:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ 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 [this message]
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               ` [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
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-07-24 19:09 Jonathon Mah
2013-07-24 20:37 ` Junio C Hamano

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