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Re: git tag usability issue: Lightweight vs Annotated confusion for the end user (ex. git describe default)

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jul 24, 2013, 20:34 UTC
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Daniele Segato <daniele.segato@gmail.com> writes:
> Annotated and Lightweight tags are not the same thing
> for git and you shouldn't mix them up. Annotated tags are meant for
> release while lightweight tags are meant to tag random commits.
Nicely explained.

This is one of those "we who worked on Git (not worked "with" Git) for a long time _know_ it and do not need it to be explained, and we didn't spot that it is not explained in the documentation for new people."

Care to roll a documentation patch (and get a commit count for yourself ;-)?

Thanks.
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  2. Junio C HamanoJul 24, 2013
  3. git-tag man: when to use lightweight or annotated tagsDaniele Segato, Jul 25, 2013
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  10. Jeff KingJul 26, 2013
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  12. Daniele SegatoJul 29, 2013
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  15. Junio C HamanoJul 29, 2013
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  22. Daniele SegatoJul 29, 2013
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