From: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@xs4all.nl>
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 16:05:22 GMT
Subject: Re: git tag: don't complain of empty messages
Message-ID: <455B3AC2.10107@xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0611151657570.13772@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

Johannes Schindelin escreveu:
> 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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