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From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
To: Git Mailing list <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] Clarify that a tag can refer to a non-commit object
Date: Fri, 25 May 2018 05:45:09 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.21.1805250543230.8587@localhost.localdomain> (raw)


Reword "man git-tag" to clarify that a tag can refer directly to an
arbitrary object, not just a commit object.

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>

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diff --git a/Documentation/git-tag.txt b/Documentation/git-tag.txt
index 1d17101ba..87c4288ff 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-tag.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-tag.txt
@@ -34,8 +34,8 @@ in the tag message.
 If `-m <msg>` or `-F <file>` is given and `-a`, `-s`, and `-u <keyid>`
 are absent, `-a` is implied.

-Otherwise just a tag reference for the SHA-1 object name of the commit object is
-created (i.e. a lightweight tag).
+Otherwise, a tag reference that points directly at the given object
+(i.e., a lightweight tag) is created.

 A GnuPG signed tag object will be created when `-s` or `-u
 <keyid>` is used.  When `-u <keyid>` is not used, the

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