From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2019 21:54:06 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2.5 2/2] tag: prevent nested tags
Message-ID: <xmqqef6he8sh.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <20190404122722.GA23024@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> but you have to take pretty specific steps to get a tag of a blob or
> tree, like:
>
>   git tag mytag HEAD:path
>
> or
>
>   git tag mytag HEAD^{tree}

And the way to ask for commit and tag are

    git tag mytag master
    git tag mytag v1.0.0

I do not see why only the last one should either be forbidden or
automaticallly peel.  Each of these four names an object of a
specific type, and singling out a tag as "curious" makes the
interface uneven.