From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Trouble with cat-file on tags
Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2016 08:26:31 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160401122631.GA12019@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ndlgsc$ed7$1@ger.gmane.org>
On Fri, Apr 01, 2016 at 12:00:44PM +0200, Sebastian Schuberth wrote:
> This means
>
> $ git cat-file tag refs/tags/v0.1.2
>
> displays the *contents* of the tag, not the tag itself.
Right. `cat-file` is about looking at object content.
> Which leads me to
> the next question: For a given name of an annotated tag, how to get the hash
> of the tag object? The solution I found for now:
>
> $ git show-ref --tags -- v0.1.2
> 92b67e2b0626519ef8cd4e9cacb2bdafba6d53f0 refs/tags/v0.1.2
Here you just want to resolve the ref, without looking at the object.
The canonical way is:
git rev-parse --verify v0.1.2
You can also use that to peel the tag to a commit, or a commit to a tree
(e.g., with "v0.1.2^{commit}").
-Peff
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2016-04-01 9:26 Trouble with cat-file on tags Sebastian Schuberth
2016-04-01 9:32 ` Sebastian Schuberth
2016-04-01 10:00 ` Sebastian Schuberth
2016-04-01 12:26 ` Jeff King [this message]
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