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| author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2013-07-31 12:38:21 -0700 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2013-07-31 12:38:21 -0700 |
| commit | 652d2bfa83e92d871eb034e13fd811fbd402c3f1 (patch) | |
| tree | 8677166b55947468619583f76b20f085e55b0306 /Documentation | |
| parent | 5ecc4b53f77d939dfad2819658cc51f4053a03f3 (diff) | |
| parent | 29d55538b78fa8d916b99aef9a4b1e376df2dac0 (diff) | |
| download | git-652d2bfa83e92d871eb034e13fd811fbd402c3f1.tar.gz | |
Merge branch 'ds/doc-two-kinds-of-tags'
* ds/doc-two-kinds-of-tags:
docs/git-tag: explain lightweight versus annotated tags
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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-tag.txt | 11 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-tag.txt b/Documentation/git-tag.txt index 22894cbee6..c418c44d40 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-tag.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-tag.txt @@ -42,6 +42,17 @@ committer identity for the current user is used to find the GnuPG key for signing. The configuration variable `gpg.program` is used to specify custom GnuPG binary. +Tag objects (created with `-a`, `s`, or `-u`) are called "annotated" +tags; they contain a creation date, the tagger name and e-mail, a +tagging message, and an optional GnuPG signature. Whereas a +"lightweight" tag is simply a name for an object (usually a commit +object). + +Annotated tags are meant for release while lightweight tags are meant +for private or temporary object labels. For this reason, some git +commands for naming objects (like `git describe`) will ignore +lightweight tags by default. + OPTIONS ------- |