From: Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2016 09:32:42 GMT
Subject: Re: Trouble with cat-file on tags
Message-ID: <ndlf7q$ghe$1@ger.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <ndlesh$dj1$1@ger.gmane.org>

On 4/1/2016 11:26, Sebastian Schuberth wrote:

> ---8<---
> $ git tag test-tag
>
> $ git tag -l
> test-tag
> v0.0.3
> v0.0.4
> v0.1.0
> v0.1.1
> v0.1.2
>
> $ git cat-file tag refs/tags/test-tag
> fatal: git cat-file refs/tags/test-tag: bad file
> ---8<---

Alright, I just found out why that is: Lighweight tags are not stored as 
Git objects. As soon as I make it an annoted tag by specifying a 
message, "cat-file tag" do esnot display a fatal error anymore.

However, I still get information about the commit oject iintsead of the 
tag object. Is this expected?

Regards,
Sebastian