Hi, On Mon, 10 Jul 2006, Petr Baudis wrote: > Hi, > > Dear diary, on Sun, Jul 09, 2006 at 04:33:53PM CEST, I got a letter > where Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> said that... > > On Sun, 9 Jul 2006, Marco Costalba wrote: > > > > > It is possible to add a message (and more) to a tag creating a tag > > > object. FWIK this is not allowed for the other refs. > > > > > > Why there is this (artifical?) difference between tags and the other > > > kind of refs? > > > > The tag message is nothing else than a commit message. > > huh? > > The tag message is a message in the "freeform" part of the tag object, > but disregarding the format similiraties, it has really nothing to do > with a commit message. (Also, commit messages don't tend to be commonly > PGP signed. ;-) Marco was talking about an "artificial difference", which means technical issues. From a technical viewpoint, the tag message is _exactly_ the same as a commit message. Hth, Dscho - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html