Max Resnick <max.resnick@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > What did you do before the bug happened? (Steps to reproduce your issue) > I was using name-rev to resolve a commits tag name. Annotated tags seem > to have a null termination and lightweight tags dont. > ❯ git name-rev --tag --name-only > 38bdebc9107cab4ab3718d0581632702e74d9209 > annotated-tag^0 > > /tmp/null-termination-issue on master > ❯ git name-rev --tag --name-only > a340894d3ee655ae6c336a85b42d2215d52609e3 > lightweight-tag Presumably the long hexadecimal are supposed to be on the same line as the "name-rev" command itself? There is nothing broken in the above output. The anotated tag (annotated-tag in your example) is an object that merely points at another object (in which case, the object whose name is 38bdebc9, which I guess would be a commit) and it itself has an object name different from 38bdebc9. The suffix "^0" (which has nothing to do with null-termination) means "I do not mean the tag object itself, but the object that is pointed by it". On the other hand, your lightweight-tag is directly pointing at the object a340894d, so saying "lightweight-tag" is sufficient, as there is no extra layer of indirection (i.e. a tag object) involved. Hope it helps.
