Re: git tag: don't complain of empty messages

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



Johannes Schindelin escreveu:
Hi,

On Wed, 15 Nov 2006, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:

GIT refuses to set annotated tags without a comment. I think this is a silly
restriction when the message is explicitly set to the empty string.

I think that this behaviour is on purpose: The tag will be identified (like all objects in git) by its contents. The rationale: the filename does not matter, since the tag _object_ is not identified by it. So, in case you lose your .git/refs/tags/ directory, you can still reconstruct the tags with "git-fsck-objects --full".

Without a message, the tag can still be identified by its name, which is in the tag object contents.

--
 Han-Wen Nienhuys - hanwen@xxxxxxxxx - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen
-
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

[Index of Archives]     [Linux Kernel Development]     [Gcc Help]     [IETF Annouce]     [DCCP]     [Netdev]     [Networking]     [Security]     [V4L]     [Bugtraq]     [Yosemite]     [MIPS Linux]     [ARM Linux]     [Linux Security]     [Linux RAID]     [Linux SCSI]     [Fedora Users]