On Fri, May 25 2018, Junio C Hamano wrote: > "Robert P. J. Day" <[email protected]> writes: > >> embarrassed to admit i had no idea that you could tag non-commit >> objects, only realized that when i was reading the man page and saw: >> >> SYNOPSIS >> git tag [-a | -s | -u <keyid>] [-f] [-m <msg> | -F <file>] [-e] >> <tagname> [<commit> | <object>] >> ^^^^^^^^ >> >> so i tried it and, sure enough, i could tag a blob object. but if you >> read further into DESCRIPTION, about halfway through, you read: >> >> "Otherwise just a tag reference for the SHA-1 object name of the >> commit object is created (i.e. a lightweight tag)." >> ^^^^^^ >> >> which suggests only commit objects. finally, much further down, under >> OPTIONS: >> >> "<commit>, <object> >> The object that the new tag will refer to, usually a commit. >> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >> >> so to clean this up, is it sufficient to just change that middle line >> to say "object" rather than "commit object"? or is there more in the >> man page that needs tweaking? > > As that sentence talks about a lightweight tag (i.e. a reference in > refs/tags/ hierarchy that directly points at an object of any kind), > another possibility would be to say > > Otherwise a tag reference that directly points at the given > object (i.e. lightweight tag) is created.
Related, this recent patch of mine: https://public-inbox.org/git/[email protected]/#t I.e. might be worth talking about this briefly in the git-tag manpage as well, i.e. that you can create a lightweight "tag" to a commit, but then depending on where you push it it becomes either a branch or a tag, which may not be intuitive to users...
