Subject: Re: [BugReport] git tag -a / git show

From: Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 20:27:09 +0100

On 02/24/2012 11:24 AM, Romain Vimont (®om) wrote:
> $ git log --pretty=online
> 0ef41513d0b6d0ad28f21d0ac1da7096ad1dc6ff This is the last commit
> a4702c69c28484d357179166cf3b116764da20a4 This is a commit
>
> Now, I edit some files (for example in a config file "mock_data=true"),
> then I want to tag without commiting this change.
>
> $ git tag -a v0.1 -m 'My v0.1 with mock data'

> And it shows the diff between a4702c69c28484d357179166cf3b116764da20a4
> and 0ef41513d0b6d0ad28f21d0ac1da7096ad1dc6ff (the two last commits).

Hi Romain,
git tag attaches the tag to the last commit, 0ef41513 in your case. 
Dirty changes in your tree are ignored by the tag command. You would 
have to commit them first, and attach the tag to this new commit.

zbyszek