again, a curiosity about a fairly simple issue -- all the docs define the two types of tags:
1) annotated -- an actual git commit object with an author and so on 2) lightweight -- little more than a commit ID stored under refs/tags or so i thought. i wanted to demonstrate the difference using the linux kernel source tree, so if you list *all* the tags, well, it is of course lengthy: $ git tag -l | wc -l 465 $ now to demonstrate the difference, i was going to display the contents of .git/refs/tags to show it was (i thought) empty, but: [rpjday@localhost git]$ ls -l .git/refs/tags/ total 12 -rw-rw-r--. 1 rpjday rpjday 41 Apr 13 06:38 v4.0 -rw-rw-r--. 1 rpjday rpjday 41 Apr 7 05:47 v4.0-rc7 -rw-rw-r--. 1 rpjday rpjday 41 Apr 28 10:38 v4.1-rc1 $ huh? are those supposed to represent the three lightweight tags that currently exist? *i* certainly didn't add them. so they're part of the checkout? did someone just make a mistake and add lightweight tags rather than annotated ones? more confusing is what i read in a bit at stack overflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21031201/how-can-i-list-all-lightweight-tags "As for annotated tags, well, the trick here—it affects the "lightweight" tags part too—is that an annotated tag is actually an object in the git repository, but, there's a lightweight tag that points to that object, that lets you get at the annotated tag by its tag name.1 So it's really a pair of things: a lightweight tag, plus the in-repo annotated tag object, that makes it "not a lightweight tag", except for that stubborn fact that it is a lightweight tag at the same time! "Thus, it boils down to: find all lightweight tags, then optionally select only tags pointing to commits or tags pointing to tag-objects depending on the behavior you want, then go on to emit the tag name." i never knew this, but that makes it even *more* confusing as it suggests there should be all 465 tag entries under .git/refs/tags/, no? so how do i interpret those lonely three tag names in refs/tags? rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ======================================================================== _______________________________________________ Linux mailing list Linux@lists.oclug.on.ca http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux
