On Tue, Jun 07, 2016 at 03:35:07PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 3:29 PM, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > or even:
> >
> > git tag --show-tag-name foo/v1.0
> >
> > when refs/remotes/foo/v1.0 exists?
> >
> > The rule right now is generally that "git tag" takes actual tag names.
>
> Ahh, I forgot about that. Yes, indeed the command does not work
> like other Git commands, which would just let generic revision parser
> to accept an object name from anywhere. Probably it was a mistake,
> because "git tag --verify $T" may find refs/tags/$T but that may not
> necessarily mean "git checkout $T^0" would give you that exact
> tree state, but it is too late to change now.
>
Sorry I'm trying to follow this. Would it be best to then have
verify-tag [--check-name=tagname] (tag-ref|tag-name|sha1)?
and
tag -v [--check-name] (tag-name)
Or would --format still work better?
Thanks!
-Santiago.
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