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
next prev parent 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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