From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano 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 Message-ID: <7vtxjj66kn.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <51EFA9A9.4010103@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Git Mailing List To: Daniele Segato X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Jul 24 22:34:28 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1V25lT-0000Ri-Q8 for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Wed, 24 Jul 2013 22:34:28 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752953Ab3GXUeL (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Jul 2013 16:34:11 -0400 Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.35]:49026 "EHLO smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752641Ab3GXUeJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Jul 2013 16:34:09 -0400 Received: from smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B690A33D93; Wed, 24 Jul 2013 20:34:07 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=2Ca1Pwhb5tm70yRudcXXgyV9RrI=; b=JXQ6Lb EqbzvqQBYxzjJRHB/XudE+CQXPpcMKsfRHZJRHEK9hFFnHpRmHsFddDw1QvC4rr4 V+I9T4DWpzUtjyHoQZC4LDDTpqh60oc99e6iSyKYf+Vq/ocmEwCV+aPXBoa6piRI plr+5J4ZVoZzczq4jo0eLoZ34kC25dD55UJs8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=o3mY0OWWKzAN8/fU2XuEo0I9XdwwNy9g d0TIo7gSsQ/X2LJj973OX+WWf8YF1iwbmr5bjcWvUWmCGcee4WFfteVllrLc6gsM dHJKnjQH/IiDQqs2d018muoMz42LugAEbSHeETWct2dTcLyfsu3XXR2Emfv6TRSK nw6ziYXuW2s= Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD16F33D92; Wed, 24 Jul 2013 20:34:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [50.161.4.97]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 2331933D91; Wed, 24 Jul 2013 20:34:07 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <51EFA9A9.4010103@gmail.com> (Daniele Segato's message of "Wed, 24 Jul 2013 12:17:13 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 633EADF0-F4A0-11E2-8B52-E84251E3A03C-77302942!b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Daniele Segato 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.