Paul Mackerras <paulus@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Junio C Hamano writes:
>
>> That's a dubious idea.
>>
>> - Why assume a tag points directly at a commit, or if it is
>> not, why assume "foo^{}" (dereferencing repeatedly until we
>> get a non-tag) is special?
>
> Umm, I'm not sure what you're getting at here - if one shouldn't make
> those assumptions, why does git ls-remote output both the tag and
> tag^{} lines?
This was originally done to support Cogito's tag following which
was in its infancy. So in that sense it is already special (iow
we know one user that can take advantage of it), but my point
was that its usefulness for a commit chain fetching application
(i.e. Cogito) does not automatically mean it is also useful for
visualizers like gitk and gitweb.
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