Subject: Re: please consider remove those tags named master, which is ambigous with master branch

From: Andreas Ericsson <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:56:54 +0200

Alex Riesen wrote:
> 2008/9/23 rae l <[email-masked]>:
>> To Git developers:
>>  I found that different git subcommand have inconsitent processing
>> about ambiguous refname,
>>
>> git show will take "master" tag first,
>> while git tag -v will take "master" branch first,
>>
>> So what's your suggestion to fix this? Just simple remove ambiguous refnames?
> 
> You can use "refs/tags/master" and "refs/heads/master"...

Apart from that..

"git tag -v" taking a branch *at all* is not something we want to
happen, as it's supposed to verify the pgp signature of a signed
tag. Are you absolutely 100% certain that "git tag -v" tries to
verify refs/heads/master as a tag object?

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