From: Mantas Mikulėnas Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 19:33:28 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] cat-file: print tags raw for "cat-file -p" Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20130225185058.GD14438@sigill.intra.peff.net> On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 8:50 PM, Jeff King wrote: > 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 > --- > 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.) -- Mantas Mikulėnas