Re: [PATCH 4/4] cat-file: print tags raw for "cat-file -p"

From: Mantas Mikulėnas <grawity@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 25, 2013, 19:33 UTC
Message-ID: <CAPWNY8V=OT_Rt0GfhrmEhf_bqqMhCSR4EDCiX0FOr8EZSPkAUA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20130225185058.GD14438@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 8:50 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:

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> Note that "git verify-tag" and "git tag -v" depend on
> "cat-file -p" to show the tag. This means they will start
> showing the raw timestamp. We may want to adjust them to
> use the pretty-printing code from "git show".
>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
> ---
> I don't use "git tag -v" much, so I'm not sure what is sane there. But
> this seems like it would be a regression for people who want to check
> the human-readable date given by GPG against the date in the tag object.

Personally, I've found it quite confusing that commits (incl. merged tags) can be verified with `git show --show-signature`, but for tags I must use `git tag -v`... took me a while to find the latter.

(`git show --verify` might be even better, but that's just me.)

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Mantas Mikulėnas <grawity@gmail.com>