From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 16:02:31 GMT
Subject: Re: git tag: don't complain of empty messages
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0611151657570.13772@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <ejfc1t$6am$1@sea.gmane.org>

Hi,

On Wed, 15 Nov 2006, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:

> GIT refuses to set annotated tags without a comment. I think this is a silly
> restriction when the message is explicitly set to the empty string.

I think that this behaviour is on purpose: The tag will be identified 
(like all objects in git) by its contents. The rationale: the filename 
does not matter, since the tag _object_ is not identified by it. So, in 
case you lose your .git/refs/tags/ directory, you can still reconstruct 
the tags with "git-fsck-objects --full".

Ciao,
Dscho