Lightweight is just a ref, like a branch is, it points at a commit and has a name. An anno tag has full info, author, date/timestamp, comment, all that jazz. Generally speaking, you should try to use anno tags at all times since they provide much more detailed info.
Tekkub Github General Support http://support.github.com/ Join us on IRC: #github on freenode.net Discussion group: github@googlegroups.com On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 7:15 PM, trans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Dec 5, 12:45 pm, Dustin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Dec 5, 5:17 am, trans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Anyone know of a simple way to count the number of commits since the > > > the most recent tag? > > > > If you tag correctly (i.e. use -a or -s, otherwise you don't get a > > tag object), ``git describe'' includes the number of commits in its > > output. > > I did not know this! What is a light-weight tag as opposed to an > annotated tag object? Does the distinction effect checkouts? > > Thanks. > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GitHub" group. To post to this group, send email to github@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/github?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
