Re: Unify annotated and non-annotated tags

From: anatoly techtonik <techtonik@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 23, 2017, 07:31 UTC
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On Sat, Nov 11, 2017 at 5:06 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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> Igor Djordjevic <igor.d.djordjevic@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> If you would like to mimic output of "git show-ref", repeating
>> commits for each tag pointing to it and showing full tag name as
>> well, you could do something like this, for example:
>>
>>       for tag in $(git for-each-ref --format="%(refname)" refs/tags)
>>       do
>>               printf '%s %s\n' "$(git rev-parse $tag^0)" "$tag"
>>       done
>>
>>
>> Hope that helps a bit.
>
> If you use for-each-ref's --format option, you could do something
> like (pardon a long line):
>
> git for-each-ref --format='%(if)%(*objectname)%(then)%(*objectname)%(else)%(objectname)%(end) %(refname)' refs/tags
>
> without any loop, I would think.

Thanks. That helps.

So my proposal is to get rid of non-annotated tags, so to get all tags with commits that they point to, one would use:

git for-each-ref --format='%(*objectname) %(refname)' refs/tags

For so-called non-annotated tags just leave the message empty. I don't see why anyone would need non-annotated tags though.

-- 
anatoly t.