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From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Since when is a tag a commit?
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2006 11:34:56 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <eb9lrm$3ef$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20060808021251.GA19548@spearce.org

Shawn Pearce wrote:

> Current `next`:
> 
>   [spearce@pb15 git]$ git cat-file commit v1.4.1
>   tree 34c8f9c263c1c20592d3f56c3d86bea322577155
>   parent 6631c73685bea3c6300938f4900db0d0c6bee457
>   author Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> 1151691633 -0700
>   committer Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> 1151803695 -0700
>   ...

This is commit referenced by tag, i.e. v1.4.1^{commit}

> Uhhh, that's a tag.  I know it is:
> 
>   [spearce@pb15 git]$ git cat-file tag v1.4.1
>   object 0556a11a0df6b4119e01aa77dfb795561e62eb34
>   type commit
>   tag v1.4.1
>   tagger Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> 1151818415 -0700
>   ...

This is tag itself.

> And I know its not a tree:
> 
>   [spearce@pb15 git]$ git cat-file tree v1.4.1
>   100644 .gitignore{?MX~ă????y?v?X?u100644 COPYINGo?...

This is tree referenced by commit, referenced by tag, i.e. v1.4.1^{tree}

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
ShadeHawk on #git

      parent reply	other threads:[~2006-08-08  9:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-08  2:12 Since when is a tag a commit? Shawn Pearce
2006-08-08  3:28 ` Daniel Barkalow
2006-08-08  9:34 ` Jakub Narebski [this message]

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