Re: Suggestion: error "tag ... already exists" should distinguish between tagging different or same commit:

From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Date: Jun 9, 2025, 20:15 UTC
Message-ID: <87qzzsisdp.fsf@igel.home>
In-Reply-To: <CAE1pOi34+btHyV8GbjpFPcJ+2ixu59ce4eAE=Q7F4JEcuJyXnw@mail.gmail.com>

On Jun 09 2025, Hilco Wijbenga wrote:

> Does it really make sense for that first example to fail, though? "git
> tag hello v1.9.5" is an idempotent operation, isn't it? The second
> attempt is a no-op?

That's not true if an annotated tag is replaced by a lightweight tag.

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