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Re: Cogito: cg-tag creates a tag object only if -s is specified

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Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date
Sep 26, 2005, 23:54 UTC
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<20050926235416.GH26340@pasky.or.cz>
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Dear diary, on Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 01:36:01AM CEST, I got a letter where "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> told me that...

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> cg-tag only creates a tag object if -s (sign) is specified.  This not 
> only doesn't work properly with a fair number of tools (e.g. gitk), but 
> it also means that any description the user has entered via the -d 
> option is silently discarded!
> 
> Please create a tag object for all tags, even if it is not signed.

Yes, makes sense. In the past it seemed like a nice idea to only create it when we have to, but it has way too many downsides and if you still have a plausible reason not to want the tag objects, you're special enough to fallback to the lowlevel tools.

cg-tag now always creates tag objects.
Thanks for the feedback,
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  1. H. Peter AnvinSep 26, 2005
  2. Petr BaudisSep 26, 2005

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