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Re: git tag: don't complain of empty messages

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Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@xs4all.nl>
Date
Nov 15, 2006, 16:05 UTC
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Johannes Schindelin escreveu:
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> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, 15 Nov 2006, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
> 
>> GIT refuses to set annotated tags without a comment. I think this is a silly
>> restriction when the message is explicitly set to the empty string.
> 
> I think that this behaviour is on purpose: The tag will be identified 
> (like all objects in git) by its contents. The rationale: the filename 
> does not matter, since the tag _object_ is not identified by it. So, in 
> case you lose your .git/refs/tags/ directory, you can still reconstruct 
> the tags with "git-fsck-objects --full".

Without a message, the tag can still be identified by its name, which is in the tag object contents.

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