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Re: Lightweight tag ?

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jan 11, 2009, 21:04 UTC
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"Francis Moreau" <francis.moro@gmail.com> writes:
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> My problem is that I don't see their point !
>
> They behave the same way like the annotated tags: when pushing to a
> repo the lightweight tags are pushed as well, and pulling from a repo
> with lightweight tags give the same results (all of this with the
> --tags switch).

Don't use explicit --tags blindly. It says "no matter what kind of tag, transfer everything under refs/tags". Otherwise you won't see a difference.

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