From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Petr Baudis Subject: Re: Cogito: cg-tag creates a tag object only if -s is specified Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 01:54:16 +0200 Message-ID: <20050926235416.GH26340@pasky.or.cz> References: <433885E1.8010800@zytor.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Git Mailing List X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Sep 27 01:54:48 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EK2ni-0007IJ-Ej for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 27 Sep 2005 01:54:26 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750808AbVIZXyX (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Sep 2005 19:54:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750812AbVIZXyX (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Sep 2005 19:54:23 -0400 Received: from w241.dkm.cz ([62.24.88.241]:30126 "EHLO machine.or.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750808AbVIZXyX (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Sep 2005 19:54:23 -0400 Received: (qmail 2822 invoked by uid 2001); 27 Sep 2005 01:54:16 +0200 To: "H. Peter Anvin" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <433885E1.8010800@zytor.com> X-message-flag: Outlook : A program to spread viri, but it can do mail too. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.10i Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Dear diary, on Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 01:36:01AM CEST, I got a letter where "H. Peter Anvin" told me that... > cg-tag only creates a tag object if -s (sign) is specified. This not > only doesn't work properly with a fair number of tools (e.g. gitk), but > it also means that any description the user has entered via the -d > option is silently discarded! > > Please create a tag object for all tags, even if it is not signed. Yes, makes sense. In the past it seemed like a nice idea to only create it when we have to, but it has way too many downsides and if you still have a plausible reason not to want the tag objects, you're special enough to fallback to the lowlevel tools. cg-tag now always creates tag objects. Thanks for the feedback, -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/ VI has two modes: the one in which it beeps and the one in which it doesn't.