From: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:21:39 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tag -d: print sha1 of deleted tag
Message-ID: <4B20F5E3.20004@drmicha.warpmail.net>
In-Reply-To: <20091210124701.GA12521@atjola.homenet>

Björn Steinbrink venit, vidit, dixit 10.12.2009 13:47:
> On 2009.12.10 13:23:43 +0100, Michael J Gruber wrote:
>> Print the sha1 of the deleted tag (in addition to the tag name) so that
>> one can easily recreate a mistakenly deleted tag:
>>
>> git tag -d tagname
>> Deleted tag 'tagname' DEADBEEF
>> git tag 'tagname' DEADBEEF # for lightweight tags
>> git update-ref refs/tags/'tagname' DEADBEEF # for annotated tags
> 
> Using "git tag 'tagname' DEADBEEF" should actually work in both cases.
> As that does nothing but creating the ref in the refs/tags/ namespace.
> 
> Bjoern

Cool, even better! So, an annotated tag is practically a lightweight tag
pointing to a tag object. Once you think of it it's natural!

Michael