I found an edge case bug in the display behavior of gitk. I encountered it while working in a repository where we make branches with a name like "1.0.3" and create an annotated tag "1.0.3" when everything is ready on that branch. In the process of scripting some of this, I thought I was not creating the annotated tags correctly because when I'd look at them in gitk, they were showing up as lightweight tags. However I noticed that "git describe" was showing the tag name correctly, and thus the issue was in gitk.
The bug can be simply reproduced by the following sequence of commands:
git init touch test git add test git commit -m "commit message" git tag -am "annotated tag message" master gitk
The master tag is displayed in gitk pane as a lightweight tag rather than an annotated tag:
Tag: master Id: 5b0a763ec5791da4981f14ff5f6ef6384117945c
However if I move the master branch on to a new commit or rename it:
git branch -m renamed
Then the tag is correctly displayed by gitk as an annotated tag:
object 5b0a763ec5791da4981f14ff5f6ef6384117945c type commit tag master tagger David Holmer <xxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxx> 1273068181 -0400
annotated tag message
Thank you, David