Re: How to create tags outside of refs/tags?

Jay Soffian [off-list ref] writes:

On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 12:21 PM, Christian Halstrick
[off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

I would like to create a tag which full name is not starting with
refs/tags. Is that possible with 'git tag'?

Nope.

quoted

If not, is there any other command to create such tags?

If it's just a light-weight tag, you can use the low-level (plumbing)
command update-ref to create an arbitrary ref:

That is a very unfriendly answer.  You shouldn't be answering everybody
who ask "How do I shoot my foot off?  git-foo command does not seem to let
me do so" with "Here is how to do that".

$ git update-ref refs/blargh HEAD

At least, please say "that thing is no longer a tag, many git commands
would complain because refs/blargh does not have two-levels, and do not
ever think about starting that thing without 'refs/', or your 'gc' may end
up losing that object" when you give a potentially dangerous hint like
that (the last one being the most important).