Re: [PATCH] GIT-VERSION-GEN: Do not require tags to be annotated

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Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > For custom builds of Git it sometimes is inconvenient to annotate tags
> > because there simply is nothing to say, so do not require an annotation.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> 
> Hmmmm, personally I'd actually want this to stay the way it is, or
> even require a valid signed tag, in order to make sure I won't
> mistakenly creating a lightweight tag.

So the only user Git should care about is you? If Git can make _you_ more
confortable not making certain mistakes, then that's the way it should be?

What's the point of lightweight tags anyway? 'git describe' doesn't use them,
GIT-VERSION-GEN neither, just remove them already.

For the vast majority of the people out there, a tag is a tag. Period.

-- 
Felipe Contreras
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