From: Thomas Rast Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2013 14:27:14 GMT Subject: [PATCH] git-tag(1): we tag HEAD by default Message-ID: <137ebfa428b16497287c55e552372df1087f1588.1364999181.git.trast@inf.ethz.ch> The | argument is actually not explained anywhere (except implicitly in the description of an unannotated tag). Write a little explanation, in particular to cover the default. Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast --- Prompted by a question on IRC about the default value. Do we actually read our own docs? ;-) Documentation/git-tag.txt | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/git-tag.txt b/Documentation/git-tag.txt index e3032c4..697df50 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-tag.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-tag.txt @@ -126,6 +126,11 @@ This option is only applicable when listing tags without annotation lines. linkgit:git-check-ref-format[1]. Some of these checks may restrict the characters allowed in a tag name. +, :: + The object that the new tag will refer to, usually a commit. + Defaults to HEAD. + + CONFIGURATION ------------- By default, 'git tag' in sign-with-default mode (-s) will use your -- 1.8.2.548.g7173465