On Wed, Sep 03, 2014 at 04:14:34PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > The main advantage of the "tag" field is that it is machine-readable, > > and that your verification process can check that "git verify-tag > > v2.1.0" actually returns a tag that says "tag v2.1.0". But I do not > > think we do that verification at all. I wonder if that is something we > > should add support for. > > Yes. That essentially boils down to "refs/tags/$tag" must have "tag $tag" > line (the reverse may not have to be true if the hierarchy is > outside refs/tags/, though). Exactly. But to just bring it back to the original series, I do not think this is a thing that fsck should care about. It is something that verify-tag should care about (but again, not unconditionally, and probably not by default). -Peff -- 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