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Re: git/cogito suggestion: tags with descriptions

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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
Sep 5, 2005, 19:01 UTC
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Zack Brown <zbrown@tumblerings.org> writes:
> It would be great if tags also allowed a brief description to go along with
> them, that would show up in cg-tag-ls. Then I could seek to a tag that's just
> an easy-to-type version number, and still have an idea of what's significant
> about that version because of the descriptive text.
Would 'git tag -a' work for you?

: siamese; git tag -a -m 'This is to just demonstrate.' test-for-brown : siamese; git cat-file tag test-for-brown object 0516de30e8bdd26086e2a3edd3375981fd0c34d6 type commit tag test-for-brown tagger Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> 1125946805 -0700

This is to just demonstrate. : siamese; 

BTW, when will the next issue of GIT traffic appear ;-)?
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