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From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git tag: don't complain of empty messages
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 01:38:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ejgbrq$o5u$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 455BAD80.1080108@xs4all.nl

Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:

> Junio C Hamano escreveu:
>> I do not have a strong objection against allowing tags without
>> messages, but at the same time I do not see a compelling reason
>> to allow them either.  Care to explain what workflow is helped
>> by an empty tag?
> 
> the tagname usually is enough of a description, but I want the tags to 
> end up in the object DB, eg.:
> 
>    git tag release/2.10.0 HEAD
> 
> now I have to use
> 
>    git tag -m "this really sucks"  release/2.10.0 HEAD

Why not

   git tag -m "release 2.10.0" release/2.10.0 HEAD

This way you would know what tag points to even if you loose it's
reference...
-- 
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
ShadeHawk on #git


  reply	other threads:[~2006-11-16  0:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-11-15 15:34 git tag: don't complain of empty messages Han-Wen Nienhuys
2006-11-15 16:02 ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-11-15 16:05   ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2006-11-15 16:19     ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-11-15 18:23 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-11-16  0:14   ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2006-11-16  0:38     ` Jakub Narebski [this message]
2006-11-16  1:27       ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2006-11-26 16:42   ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2006-11-26 16:46     ` Han-Wen Nienhuys

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