On Fri, 28 Jan 2011 03:37:56 -0800 (PST) vikram2rhyme <vikram2rhyme@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I am wondering why the tags are there in git. As they are just > pointer to the commit > we can refer those commit by SHA sum only then why tagging? Moreover a > commit can > be tagged more than once that result in multiple tags pointing to the > same point in the history. > Is this a design flaw? Amending what other commenters said, I should note that beyond regular tags which just provide human-readable names to objects, there exist so-called "annotated tags" which are tags with descriptive messages contained in them, which can be used as a side-channel to provide additional information for commits, and also to digitally sign a line of history to which such a tag is attached. Also note that a tag can be attached to any object in a Git database, not necessarily to a commit. This can be occasionally useful. -- 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