Re: Wishlist: Please add --author to git-tag

From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Feb 18, 2008, 00:00 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.00.0802171859010.2732@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <420D37FF-C808-47CA-A3C8-38E1F8578FAC@gmail.com>

On Sat, 16 Feb 2008, Rhodes, Kate wrote:

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> On Jan 31, 2008, at 12:27 PM, Daniel Baumann wrote:
> 
> > git commit supports --author to overwrite the author information on a
> > particular commit; it would be nice if git tag would offer the same.
> 
> What are the implications of this on the GPG signature aspect of git-tag
> (desired or otherwise)?
> 
> If you were committing someone else's tag wouldn't you want to sign not only
> the commit, but their signature on the commit?
> 
> Ignoring the GPG issue, I'm just not seeing the benefit to having an author
> AND a committer on a tag. I mean... it's a *tag*. The only value I see in
> having any name associated with a tag is knowing who to point the finger at
> when the wrong thing gets tagged. But, I don't see any authorship aspect to
> the concept of a tag. To me it's more: "Bob" set it and it points to this. The
> end.
> 
> What you're proposing sounds more like: "Bob" said to set it and then "Mary"
> did, because Bob said to.

And in that case this information can be contained in the tag text body itself.

Nicolas