Re: Feature request: Add --no-edit to git tag command

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> On Wed, Apr 03, 2019 at 09:38:02AM -0500, Robert Dailey wrote:
>
>> Similar to git commit, it would be nice to have a --no-edit option for
>> git tag. Use case is when I force-recreate a tag:
>> 
>> $ git tag -af 1.0 123abc
>> 
>> An editor will be prompted with the previous annotated tag message. I
>> would like to add --no-edit to instruct it to use any previously
>> provided message and without prompting the editor:
>> 
>> $ git tag --no-edit -af 1.0 123abc
>
> Yeah, that sounds like a good idea.

I am not so sure this is a good idea, especially if the plan is to
do this alone without necessary associated change to make things
consistent.

The part that bothers me most is use of "-f".  The mentalitly behind
"-f" is "I am creating a new and tag that is totally unrelated to
any existing tag, but since the command refuses to reuse the ref to
point at my new tag, I am giving an '-f' to force (1) unpointing the
existing unrelated tag and (2) pointing the enwly created tag with
that tagname".

The proposed change still uses "-f" but wants to somehow take the
tag message from the unrelated tag that happens to sit at the same
place as the new tag wants to go.  That breaks the mental model a
big way.

If this were a new option that is spelled "--amend", I won't
be complaining, though.