Re: [PATCH] tag -d: print sha1 of deleted tag

[Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>]

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 01:23:43PM +0100, Michael J Gruber wrote:
>
>> Print the sha1 of the deleted tag (in addition to the tag name) so that
>> one can easily recreate a mistakenly deleted tag:
>> 
>> git tag -d tagname
>> Deleted tag 'tagname' DEADBEEF
>> git tag 'tagname' DEADBEEF # for lightweight tags
>> git update-ref refs/tags/'tagname' DEADBEEF # for annotated tags

> That being said, I am not a fan of the cut-and-paste format. This is not
> something that happens so frequently

It dpends on user. For me it it does.

>   1. It is not immediately obvious to a user seeing this message
>      for this first time exactly what the trailing sha1 means.
>
>   2. Even if they know what it means, it is not immediately obvious that
>      the error line is meant to be cut-and-pasted.

"not meant" specifically, but it's very convenient to have it in format
that happens to be "cut-n-paste ready". The SHA itself is easily
understood in the context.

Thanks for all that have so quickly implemented this,
Jari