Re: [PATCH] tag -d: print sha1 of deleted tag

Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:

On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 01:23:43PM +0100, Michael J Gruber wrote:

quoted

Print the sha1 of the deleted tag (in addition to the tag name) so that
one can easily recreate a mistakenly deleted tag:

git tag -d tagname
Deleted tag 'tagname' DEADBEEF
git tag 'tagname' DEADBEEF # for lightweight tags
git update-ref refs/tags/'tagname' DEADBEEF # for annotated tags

That being said, I am not a fan of the cut-and-paste format. This is not
something that happens so frequently

It dpends on user. For me it it does.

  1. It is not immediately obvious to a user seeing this message
     for this first time exactly what the trailing sha1 means.

  2. Even if they know what it means, it is not immediately obvious that
     the error line is meant to be cut-and-pasted.

"not meant" specifically, but it's very convenient to have it in format
that happens to be "cut-n-paste ready". The SHA itself is easily
understood in the context.

Thanks for all that have so quickly implemented this,
Jari