git-show, was Re: What's in git.git (stable)

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Dec 14, 2006, 07:59 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0612140855400.3635@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <7vy7pb9eit.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Hi,

On Wed, 13 Dec 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> One minor issue we may need to decide is what to do when show is
> given a tag object.  Personally I think the current behaviour of
> dereferencing it to commit is fine (people who want to see the
> tag can always do 'git-verify-tag -v').

How about adding the command line option "--tag" to git-show, which makes it only show that tag. I'd also vote for a "--verbose|-v" flag to show the contents of the tag _before_ showing the referenced object.

Ciao, Dscho

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