From: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2009 15:04:37 GMT
Subject: Re: git checkout does not warn about tags without corresponding commits
Message-ID: <20090102150437.GN21154@genesis.frugalware.org>
In-Reply-To: <200901021325.58049.henrik@austad.us>

On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 01:25:57PM +0100, Henrik Austad <henrik@austad.us> wrote:
> I can see that there's no commit for this, but, when there's a tag. I thought 
> that a tag was just a commit-sha1 with a name attached, along with some tag 
> info and a signature. Can you really create a tag without a commit?

Sure, you can tag any object type (blob, tree, commit or tag), but
usually only commits are tagged.

See for example the 'junio-gpg-pub' tag in git.git which tags a blob.