From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2006 22:01:16 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] just an (stupid) idea when creating a new branch
Message-ID: <20060709220116.GT29115@pasky.or.cz>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0607091632070.29667@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

  Hi,

Dear diary, on Sun, Jul 09, 2006 at 04:33:53PM CEST, I got a letter
where Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> said that...
> On Sun, 9 Jul 2006, Marco Costalba wrote:
> 
> > It is possible to add a message (and more) to a tag creating a tag
> > object. FWIK this is not allowed for the other refs.
> > 
> > Why there is this (artifical?) difference between tags and the other
> > kind of refs?
> 
> The tag message is nothing else than a commit message.

  huh?

  The tag message is a message in the "freeform" part of the tag object,
but disregarding the format similiraties, it has really nothing to do
with a commit message. (Also, commit messages don't tend to be commonly
PGP signed. ;-)

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				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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