Re: git tag usability issue: Lightweight vs Annotated confusion for the end user (ex. git describe default)

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Daniele Segato <daniele.segato@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Annotated and Lightweight tags are not the same thing
> for git and you shouldn't mix them up. Annotated tags are meant for
> release while lightweight tags are meant to tag random commits.

Nicely explained.

This is one of those "we who worked on Git (not worked "with" Git)
for a long time _know_ it and do not need it to be explained, and we
didn't spot that it is not explained in the documentation for new
people."

Care to roll a documentation patch (and get a commit count for
yourself ;-)?

Thanks.
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