On Sat, 16 May 2009, Andreas Ericsson wrote: > Add a tag with a new name, pointing to the original tag. Try doing what > Matthias did and then run "git show $tagname". It won't show the original > tag at all, so people have to resort to low-level commands in order to > see it, but it will still exist as an object. Not true. Did you check that? "git show <tag>" shows the whole chain of objects down to non-tag object. tag tag1 Tagger: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat May 16 09:55:13 2009 +0200 tag1 (retagged) tag tag1 Tagger: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat May 16 09:54:58 2009 +0200 tag1 commit 6d3eee4f5e9fde51f3213320b98bda5f325000e4 [...] True, the separation between objects could have been made more explicit... -- Jakub Narebski Poland -- To unsubscribe from this list: 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