"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > embarrassed to admit i had no idea that you could tag non-commit > objects, only realized that when i was reading the man page and saw: > > SYNOPSIS > git tag [-a | -s | -u <keyid>] [-f] [-m <msg> | -F <file>] [-e] > <tagname> [<commit> | <object>] > ^^^^^^^^ > > so i tried it and, sure enough, i could tag a blob object. but if you > read further into DESCRIPTION, about halfway through, you read: > > "Otherwise just a tag reference for the SHA-1 object name of the > commit object is created (i.e. a lightweight tag)." > ^^^^^^ > > which suggests only commit objects. finally, much further down, under > OPTIONS: > > "<commit>, <object> > The object that the new tag will refer to, usually a commit. > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > so to clean this up, is it sufficient to just change that middle line > to say "object" rather than "commit object"? or is there more in the > man page that needs tweaking? As that sentence talks about a lightweight tag (i.e. a reference in refs/tags/ hierarchy that directly points at an object of any kind), another possibility would be to say Otherwise a tag reference that directly points at the given object (i.e. lightweight tag) is created.
