Subject: Re: git-tag bug? confusing git fast-export with double tag objects

From: Jakub Narebski <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 16 May 2009 09:56:24 +0200

On Sat, 16 May 2009, Andreas Ericsson wrote:

> Add a tag with a new name, pointing to the original tag. Try doing what
> Matthias did and then run "git show $tagname". It won't show the original
> tag at all, so people have to resort to low-level commands in order to
> see it, but it will still exist as an object.

Not true. Did you check that?

"git show <tag>" shows the whole chain of objects down to non-tag object.

  tag tag1
  Tagger: Jakub Narebski <[email-masked]>
  Date:   Sat May 16 09:55:13 2009 +0200

  tag1 (retagged)
  tag tag1
  Tagger: Jakub Narebski <[email-masked]>
  Date:   Sat May 16 09:54:58 2009 +0200

  tag1
  commit 6d3eee4f5e9fde51f3213320b98bda5f325000e4
  [...]

True, the separation between objects could have been made more explicit...

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Jakub Narebski
Poland