From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 21:04:30 GMT
Subject: Re: Lightweight tag ?
Message-ID: <7v63klsgf5.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <38b2ab8a0901111044x5db21d74i25ff7a26bb702a5d@mail.gmail.com>

"Francis Moreau" <francis.moro@gmail.com> writes:

> 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.