Subject: Re: Since when is a tag a commit?

From: Jakub Narebski <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2006 11:34:56 +0200

Shawn Pearce wrote:

> Current `next`:
> 
>   [spearce@pb15 git]$ git cat-file commit v1.4.1
>   tree 34c8f9c263c1c20592d3f56c3d86bea322577155
>   parent 6631c73685bea3c6300938f4900db0d0c6bee457
>   author Linus Torvalds <[email-masked]> 1151691633 -0700
>   committer Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]> 1151803695 -0700
>   ...

This is commit referenced by tag, i.e. v1.4.1^{commit}

> Uhhh, that's a tag.  I know it is:
> 
>   [spearce@pb15 git]$ git cat-file tag v1.4.1
>   object 0556a11a0df6b4119e01aa77dfb795561e62eb34
>   type commit
>   tag v1.4.1
>   tagger Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]> 1151818415 -0700
>   ...

This is tag itself.

> And I know its not a tree:
> 
>   [spearce@pb15 git]$ git cat-file tree v1.4.1
>   100644 .gitignore{?MX~Ä????y?v?X?u100644 COPYINGo?...

This is tree referenced by commit, referenced by tag, i.e. v1.4.1^{tree}

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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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