From: Junio C Hamano Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2013 18:21:56 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-tag(1): we tag HEAD by default Message-ID: <7v38v75vaz.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <87k3ojtz9n.fsf@linux-k42r.v.cablecom.net> Thomas Rast writes: > Yann Droneaud writes: > ... >> Is there any other kind of object that can be tagged ... and what is >> the purpose of this ? > > Any object type, including tags. Signed tags of other tags probably > make sense if you want to express extra approval on top of the original > signature. I looked at what "git show" implements, and it seems to peel each level of tags to show all of them, which is very good.