From: Kalle Olavi Niemitalo <kon@iki.fi>
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:48:04 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] document that git-tag can tag more than heads
Message-ID: <87prp3652z.fsf@Astalo.kon.iki.fi>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.62.0807240000470.23113@harper.uchicago.edu>

Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu> writes:

> Samuel Bronson had the idea of putting "<commit-ish> | <object>"
> for "<object>" because most tags point to commits (and for the
> rest of the manpage, all tags point to commits).

But the argument is not a <commit-ish>.  git.txt says:

        A command that takes a <commit-ish> argument ultimately
	wants to operate on a <commit> object but automatically
	dereferences <tag> objects that point at a <commit>.

git-tag does not automatically dereference tag objects that
point to a commit.  So if you want to use "|", then it should be
"<commit> | <object>".