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| author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2013-07-31 16:11:16 -0700 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2013-07-31 16:11:16 -0700 |
| commit | 4b500fa543febf64e6a8e3e538f37a5a0733f1f5 (patch) | |
| tree | 2daa78e07ab5891dc86efddf404b14705f016ec3 /git-tag.txt | |
| parent | 41e59d5c827497c45828f14c6dd1e149a995a3ec (diff) | |
| download | git-htmldocs-4b500fa543febf64e6a8e3e538f37a5a0733f1f5.tar.gz | |
Autogenerated HTML docs for v1.8.4-rc0-24-g8dc84
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diff --git a/git-tag.txt b/git-tag.txt index 22894cbee..c418c44d4 100644 --- a/git-tag.txt +++ b/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 ------- |