From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2012 20:02:33 GMT
Subject: Re: 1.7.7.3 wishlist: add --verbose option to git-tag
Message-ID: <7vk458tuzq.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <87d3b51vr0.fsf@cante.cante.net>

Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net> writes:

> In scripts it would be useful if "git tag" would provide option:
>
>     --verbose
>
> As in script:
>
>     git tag --verbose -m "Initial import" upstream/1.0

"In scripts", you are expected to be capable of doing anything fancy with
"git cat-file tag", but we add things that turn out to be commonly needed.

What does the proposed "--verbose" produce that makes scripts easier to
write (i.e. avoids repeated post-processing of "git cat-file tag" output),
and how commonly would what you propose apply to various people's needs
other than yours?