From: Daniele Segato Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 13:48:02 GMT Subject: Re: git tag usability issue: Lightweight vs Annotated confusion for the end user (ex. git describe default) Message-ID: <51F12C92.6060200@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7vtxjj66kn.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> On 07/24/2013 10:34 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Daniele Segato writes: > >> Annotated and Lightweight tags are not the same thing >> for git and you shouldn't mix them up. Annotated tags are meant for >> release while lightweight tags are meant to tag random commits. > > Nicely explained. > > This is one of those "we who worked on Git (not worked "with" Git) > for a long time _know_ it and do not need it to be explained, and we > didn't spot that it is not explained in the documentation for new > people." Good! Any change in adding an option to filter tags list by annotated only? > > Care to roll a documentation patch (and get a commit count for > yourself ;-)? I tried, just sent the patch, hopefully I managed to follow the guide I found here: http://repo.or.cz/w/git.git?a=blob;f=Documentation/SubmittingPatches;hb=HEAD As you suggested I removed the "title" line and the reference to git describe default. If I did something wrong please explain me what and I'll fix it > > Thanks. You're Welcome :-) Cheers, Daniele Segato