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

> On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 3:07 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> >>
> >> Puzzled.  I didn't even use --format=%(tagname) in the above.
> >
> > No, but you used --show-tagname, which does not exist today (and which
> > IMHO should be implemented as --format). Would --show-tagname take
> > either a tagname _or_ a sha1? I assume it would not be calling
> > get_sha1(), as having it find refs/heads/$tag would be silly.
> 
> And you do not even want to rely on where refs/tags/* it lives.
> show-tagname, as I hinted in the first response, was meant to be
> a short-hand for
> 
>        git cat-file tag $tag_object_name | sed -e '/^$/q' -e 's/^tag //p'
> 
> so I am still puzzled.