From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 21:53:06 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC 05/12] docs: differentiate between <tag> and <tagname>
Message-ID: <7vbper7ut9.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <1268455984-19061-6-git-send-email-lodatom@gmail.com>

Mark Lodato <lodatom@gmail.com> writes:

> In the documentation and user messages, differentiate between <tag>,
> which means an actual annotated tag object, and <tagname>, which is
> a revision specifier for refs/tags/<tagname>.

Do we talk about annotated tag objects that often?

I would instead recommend you to consistently use "tag object", "tag name"
(the string that appears on "tag " line in a "tag object"), and "tag" (the
refs that live under refs/tags/ namespace.