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From: Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Trouble with cat-file on tags
Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2016 12:00:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ndlgsc$ed7$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ndlf7q$ghe$1@ger.gmane.org>

On 4/1/2016 11:32, Sebastian Schuberth wrote:

> However, I still get information about the commit oject iintsead of the
> tag object. Is this expected?

Solved this one, too: Yes it is. I was misreading the docs:

"If <type> is specified, the raw (though uncompressed) contents of the 
<object> will be returned."

This means

$ git cat-file tag refs/tags/v0.1.2

displays the *contents* of the tag, not the tag itself. Which leads me 
to the next question: For a given name of an annotated tag, how to get 
the hash of the tag object? The solution I found for now:

$ git show-ref --tags -- v0.1.2
92b67e2b0626519ef8cd4e9cacb2bdafba6d53f0 refs/tags/v0.1.2

Regards,
Sebastian

  reply	other threads:[~2016-04-01 10:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-01  9:26 Trouble with cat-file on tags Sebastian Schuberth
2016-04-01  9:32 ` Sebastian Schuberth
2016-04-01 10:00   ` Sebastian Schuberth [this message]
2016-04-01 12:26     ` Jeff King

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