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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: Tag peeling peculiarities
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 10:29:54 -0700
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Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> writes:

> It is not
> clear to me whether the prohibition of tags outside of refs/tags should
> be made more airtight or whether the peeling of tags outside of
> refs/tags should be fixed.

Retroactively forbidding presense/creation of tags outside the
designated refs/tags hierarchy will not fly.  I think we should peel
them when we are reading from "# pack-refs with: peeled" version.

Theoretically, we could introduce "# pack-refs with: fully-peeled"
that records peeled versions for _all_ annotated tags even in
unusual places, but that would be introducing problems to existing
versions of the software to cater to use cases that is not blessed
officially, so I doubt it has much value.