From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.176.0/21 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.5 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED,FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN,FREEMAIL_FROM, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MSGID_FROM_MTA_HEADER,RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 From: Jakub Narebski Subject: Re: git tag: don't complain of empty messages Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 01:38:33 +0100 Organization: At home Message-ID: References: <7v64dgo9gj.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <455BAD80.1080108@xs4all.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 00:37:41 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 28 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: host-81-190-24-209.torun.mm.pl Mail-Copies-To: jnareb@gmail.com User-Agent: KNode/0.10.2 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GkVFz-0002Yq-7G for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 16 Nov 2006 01:37:31 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1162118AbWKPAh1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Nov 2006 19:37:27 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1162120AbWKPAh1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Nov 2006 19:37:27 -0500 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:7813 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1162118AbWKPAh1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Nov 2006 19:37:27 -0500 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1GkVFn-0002XT-Qk for git@vger.kernel.org; Thu, 16 Nov 2006 01:37:20 +0100 Received: from host-81-190-24-209.torun.mm.pl ([81.190.24.209]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 16 Nov 2006 01:37:19 +0100 Received: from jnareb by host-81-190-24-209.torun.mm.pl with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 16 Nov 2006 01:37:19 +0100 To: git@vger.kernel.org Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org 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