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| author | Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> | 2018-05-25 09:45:09 (GMT) |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2018-05-29 02:55:34 (GMT) |
| commit | 590551ca2c7e24652e38efe20fc03693bbc0a66f (patch) | |
| tree | ed7fc00f809e2095b690392ded0ebbd474983f2c | |
| parent | 468165c1d8a442994a825f3684528361727cd8c0 (diff) | |
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tag: clarify in the doc that a tag can refer to a non-commit object
Reword "man git-tag" to clarify that a tag can refer directly to an
arbitrary object, not just a commit object.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-tag.txt | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-tag.txt b/Documentation/git-tag.txt index 1d17101..87c4288 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-tag.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-tag.txt @@ -34,8 +34,8 @@ in the tag message. If `-m <msg>` or `-F <file>` is given and `-a`, `-s`, and `-u <keyid>` are absent, `-a` is implied. -Otherwise just a tag reference for the SHA-1 object name of the commit object is -created (i.e. a lightweight tag). +Otherwise, a tag reference that points directly at the given object +(i.e., a lightweight tag) is created. A GnuPG signed tag object will be created when `-s` or `-u <keyid>` is used. When `-u <keyid>` is not used, the |