Re: [RFC/PATCH] verify-tag: add --check-name flag

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Jun 7, 2016, 21:18 UTC
Message-ID: <20160607211845.GA7696@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20160607211313.GD24676@LykOS.localdomain>

On Tue, Jun 07, 2016 at 05:13:14PM -0400, Santiago Torres wrote:

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> >   2. What do we do for non-annotated tags? Is it always a failure?
> 
> Right now, verify-tag fails with non-annotated tags like this: 
> 
>     santiago at ~/.../git ✔ ./git-verify-tag master
>     error: master: cannot verify a non-tag object of type commit.
> 
> Although we could change this behavior. I would have to check how git
> tag -v works as this behavior might change.

Oh, right. That makes sense. I think it's not worth worrying about that case, then.

-Peff