From: Kyle J. McKay <mackyle@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2013 22:34:08 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] GIT-VERSION-GEN: Do not require tags to be annotated
Message-ID: <4065B5CE-7E81-41F3-B9DE-FDA05C43AAB0@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <522A36AA.3050701@gmail.com>

On Sep 6, 2013, at 13:10, Sebastian Schuberth wrote:
> For custom builds of Git it sometimes is inconvenient to annotate tags
> because there simply is nothing to say, so do not require an  
> annotation.

It's not that hard to add -m "" to the command line:

   git tag -a -m "" new-annotated-tag

if you're just trying to avoid the editor or thinking up a message.   
Is `-m ""` really that inconvenient?