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Subject: Re: diff against a tag ?
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> Right now fsck is the only thing that reports tags that aren't referenced
> some other way. 

Which begs the question: why wasn't the type of the object made part of the
file name?

commit-babe1234...
tag-deadbeef5678...
tree-c0ca4321...
blob-cafe8765...

That would have simplied scripts a good deal and listing all tags
would be trivial.

Morten