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From: Thomas Braun <thomas.braun@virtuell-zuhause.de>
To: "Randall S. Becker" <rsbecker@nexbridge.com>, techtonik@gmail.com
Cc: gitster@pobox.com, git@vger.kernel.org, igor.d.djordjevic@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Unify annotated and non-annotated tags
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2017 22:24:13 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f189258d-5709-d236-ff58-5653edc57eb6@virtuell-zuhause.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <003c01d3646c$df78fc50$9e6af4f0$@nexbridge.com>

Am 23.11.2017 um 16:08 schrieb Randall S. Becker:

[...]

>> So my proposal is to get rid of non-annotated tags, so to get all
>> tags with commits that they point to, one would use:
>> git for-each-ref --format='%(*objectname) %(refname)' refs/tags>
>> For so-called non-annotated tags just leave the message empty.
>> I don't see why anyone would need non-annotated tags though.

I'm using exclusively non-annotated tags. Why? Because that is the
default of "git tag" and I also, until now, never needed more than
giving a commit a "name".

Many annotated tag messages just repeat the tag name itself, so the
message seems quite redundant to me.

Just my 2 cents,
Thomas

  reply	other threads:[~2017-11-23 21:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <201711231458.vANEwUMK048049@elephants.elehost.com>
2017-11-23 15:08 ` Re: Unify annotated and non-annotated tags Randall S. Becker
2017-11-23 21:24   ` Thomas Braun [this message]
2017-11-24  9:52   ` anatoly techtonik
2017-11-24 10:24     ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-12-02 21:26       ` anatoly techtonik
2017-12-02 22:25         ` Philip Oakley
2017-12-23 13:41           ` anatoly techtonik
2017-12-24 12:31             ` Philip Oakley
2017-12-03  5:54         ` Junio C Hamano
2017-11-24 14:11     ` Randall S. Becker
2017-11-10 10:58 anatoly techtonik
2017-11-11  1:46 ` Igor Djordjevic
2017-11-11  2:06   ` Junio C Hamano
2017-11-11  2:50     ` Igor Djordjevic
2017-11-23  7:31     ` anatoly techtonik
2017-12-23 13:33     ` anatoly techtonik

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