From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2005 19:01:40 GMT
Subject: Re: git/cogito suggestion: tags with descriptions
Message-ID: <7vd5nn49uz.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20050905184551.GA14720@tumblerings.org>

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 ;-)?