From: Thomas Braun <thomas.braun@virtuell-zuhause.de>
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2017 21:24:13 GMT
Subject: Re: Unify annotated and non-annotated tags
Message-ID: <f189258d-5709-d236-ff58-5653edc57eb6@virtuell-zuhause.de>
In-Reply-To: <003c01d3646c$df78fc50$9e6af4f0$@nexbridge.com>

Am 23.11.2017 um 16:08 schrieb Randall S. Becker:

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>> So my proposal is to get rid of non-annotated tags, so to get all
>> tags with commits that they point to, one would use:
>> git for-each-ref --format='%(*objectname) %(refname)' refs/tags>
>> For so-called non-annotated tags just leave the message empty.
>> I don't see why anyone would need non-annotated tags though.

I'm using exclusively non-annotated tags. Why? Because that is the
default of "git tag" and I also, until now, never needed more than
giving a commit a "name".

Many annotated tag messages just repeat the tag name itself, so the
message seems quite redundant to me.

Just my 2 cents,
Thomas