From: Florian Weimer Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 18:30:18 GMT Subject: Re: Pulling tags from git.git Message-ID: <87lkv5ynnp.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> In-Reply-To: <441064DD.2010903@op5.se> * Andreas Ericsson: >> The current implementation is rather counter-intuitive because it's >> much easier to create lightweight tags, and you wonder why they aren't >> replicated by fetches (but some other tags are). > Well, you wouldn't want to go through the trouble of writing a > tag-message for a temporary tag, but signing and writing a short note > for a tag that you intend those who share your workload to have is not > that much of a bother imo. It's not obvious from the git-tag documentation that signing makes a difference down the road in terms of replication. IOW, I don't question the distinction per se, but it's counter-intuitive if you aren't told about it.