From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 08:28:48 GMT
Subject: Re: git-show, was Re: What's in git.git (stable)
Message-ID: <7vbqm6anjz.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0612140855400.3635@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> Hi,
>
> On Wed, 13 Dec 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> One minor issue we may need to decide is what to do when show is
>> given a tag object.  Personally I think the current behaviour of
>> dereferencing it to commit is fine (people who want to see the
>> tag can always do 'git-verify-tag -v').
>
> How about adding the command line option "--tag" to git-show, which makes 
> it only show that tag. I'd also vote for a "--verbose|-v" flag to show the 
> contents of the tag _before_ showing the referenced object.

Sounds sensible.  Please make it so.