On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 3:07 PM, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Puzzled. I didn't even use --format=%(tagname) in the above.
>
> No, but you used --show-tagname, which does not exist today (and which
> IMHO should be implemented as --format). Would --show-tagname take
> either a tagname _or_ a sha1? I assume it would not be calling
> get_sha1(), as having it find refs/heads/$tag would be silly.
And you do not even want to rely on where refs/tags/* it lives.
show-tagname, as I hinted in the first response, was meant to be
a short-hand for
git cat-file tag $tag_object_name | sed -e '/^$/q' -e 's/^tag //p'
so I am still puzzled.
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