On Mon Mar 08 14:18:35 2010, JQUELIN wrote:
Show quoted text> are we sure we want this? in that case, the tag becomes a commit.
> note that "git describe --tags" works with lightweight tags.
>
> i'm not saying i won't implement it, i'm just discussing the various
> alternatives...
I was unaware of the --tags option to `git describe` but you're right,
that seems to make it work. I was kind of going on the assumption that
the following (cribbed from
http://learn.github.com/p/tagging.html) is
generally accepted:
"There are a two main types of tags in Git - lightweight and annotated.
Lightweight tags are very much like branches that don’t change - it’s
just a pointer to a specific commit. Annotated tags, however, are stored
as full objects in the Git database. They are checksummed, contain the
tagger name, email and date, have a tagging message and can be GPG
signed and verified. It’s generally recommended to create annotated tags
so you can have all this information, but if you want a temporary tag or
for some reason don’t want to keep that other information, lightweight
tags are available too."
