Re: Wishlist: Please add --author to git-tag

From: Carlos Rica <jasampler@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 1, 2008, 14:48 UTC
Message-ID: <1b46aba20802010648j6f305cbve55d50d1ead74a73@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0801312345520.23907@racer.site>

On Feb 1, 2008 12:48 AM, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:

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> Hi,
>
> On Thu, 31 Jan 2008, Carlos Rica wrote:
>
> > On Jan 31, 2008 8:35 PM, Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org> wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 05:27:31PM +0000, Daniel Baumann wrote:
> > >
> > > > git commit supports --author to overwrite the author information on
> > > > a particular commit; it would be nice if git tag would offer the
> > > > same.
> > >
> > >   Meanwhile,
> > >
> > >   GIT_AUTHOR_NAME="John Doe" GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL=luser@example.com git tag
> >
> > That didn't work for me,
>
> Hey jasam, good to see you again.
>
> I think that you have to use "-s" or "-a" for the author information to
> take effect (IOW a lightweight tag will not pick it up, since it is only a
> 41-byte file, and does not change the object database).

This way it doesn't work for me either. You know, the tag object has only a "tagger", who is always the committer. Currently, I'm inspecting the resulting object using "git cat-file tag t". I cannot find where that author name specified in the command line should be stored for tags.

It is nice to see you too! Carlos