Re: [RFC/PATCH] verify-tag: add --check-name flag

Santiago Torres [off-list ref] writes:

Sorry I'm trying to follow this. Would it be best to then have

    verify-tag [--check-name=tagname] (tag-ref|tag-name|sha1)?

and

    tag -v [--check-name] (tag-name)

Or would --format still work better?

No matter what you do, don't call that "--check-name".  It does not
tell the users what aspect of that thing is "checked".  Avoid being
asked "Does this check tagname to make sure it does not have
non-ASCII letters?", in other words.

As a longer-term direction, I think the best one is to make what
peff@ originally suggested, i.e.

    If we do go with the "print it out and let the caller do their own
    checks" strategy, I think I'd prefer rather than "--show-tagname" to
    just respect the "--format" we use for tag-listing. That would let you
    do:

      git tag -v --format='%(tag)%n%(tagger)'

    or similar. In fact you can already do that with a separate step (modulo
    %n, which we do not seem to understand here)...

work.

Thanks.