Re: git tag usability issue: Lightweight vs Annotated confusion for the end user (ex. git describe default)

I always add --tags when I call git-describe. Is there any reason this shouldn't become the new default (quickly, before git 2.0 perhaps)? I wasn't able to find any reason for the current behavior with just a little digging.

Jonathon Mah me@JonathonMah.com

Jonathon Mah <me@JonathonMah.com> writes:

The distinction is there for a reason--- annotated tags are meant for the more "public" and "permanent" stuff, while you can do lightweight tags for random short-term stuff.

An argument could be to change Git not to follow unannotated tags with "git fetch" and "git push --follow-tags" by default, which goes in the direction to make the distinction even clear. But for a change to make the distinction less useful, I would have to say it is probably a bad idea.