Re: [rfd] auto-following tags upon "git push"?

Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:

Hmm. Is it a clear enough hint when the user uses an actual tag object
to make a signed or annotated tag? At least for me, private throw-away
tags tend to just be refs/tags/foo pointing to a commit, and real,
for-public-consumption tags at least get an annotation, if not a
signature.

I seem to recall we make a similar distinction somewhere else in the
code, but I can't remember offhand where. Maybe it was just a proposal
that never made it anywhere.

You are thinking about "describe", I think, and the analogy holds
true. The tag annotation vs lightweight tag is a good hint I forgot to
take into account.

Anyway, the problem would be somebody who does something like:

  $ git tag -m "here is a description of how this wip is going" foo-wip

which violates the assumption above.

True, I think I did that sometimes.

I personally do not use "private tags" that much anymore; I make liberal
use of private branches for that kind of work instead, as it is more
flexible (I can check it out, build on it, rebase -i, and generally whip
it around in any other way).