Re: git tag: don't complain of empty messages

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 16, 2006, 00:38 UTC
Message-ID: <ejgbrq$o5u$1@sea.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <455BAD80.1080108@xs4all.nl>

Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:

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> Junio C Hamano escreveu:
>> I do not have a strong objection against allowing tags without
>> messages, but at the same time I do not see a compelling reason
>> to allow them either.  Care to explain what workflow is helped
>> by an empty tag?
> 
> the tagname usually is enough of a description, but I want the tags to 
> end up in the object DB, eg.:
> 
>    git tag release/2.10.0 HEAD
> 
> now I have to use
> 
>    git tag -m "this really sucks"  release/2.10.0 HEAD

Why not

   git tag -m "release 2.10.0" release/2.10.0 HEAD

This way you would know what tag points to even if you loose it's reference...

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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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