Re: [PATCH 2/3] tag: die when listing missing or corrupt objects

Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:

OK, that's easy enough to do. Should we show lightweight tags to commits
for backwards compatibility (and just drop the parse_signature junk in
that case)? The showing of blobs or trees is the really bad thing, I
think.

I think that is a sensible thing to do.  I see many end-user documents on
the Interweb that uses lightweight "git tag", and I do not think they are
shooting for brevity of their illustration.  The authors of these pages do
primarily use lightweight tags because they do not have anything more to
add in the message more than the log message commit objects they point at.
And it is a huge regression if we stop showing them if they are used to
use "tag -n".