From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 10:25:53 GMT
Subject: Re: git-show, was Re: What's in git.git (stable)
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0612141121010.3635@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <7vbqm6anjz.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Hi,

On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Sounds sensible.  Please make it so.

Actually, I rethought it. A tag _without_ what it tags makes no sense. See 
my upcoming patch. And git-show really is as Porcelain as it gets, so it 
should Do What I Mean.

Ciao,
Dscho