Re: git tag: don't complain of empty messages

Johannes Schindelin escreveu:

Hi,

On Wed, 15 Nov 2006, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:

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GIT refuses to set annotated tags without a comment. I think this is a silly
restriction when the message is explicitly set to the empty string.

I think that this behaviour is on purpose: The tag will be identified 
(like all objects in git) by its contents. The rationale: the filename 
does not matter, since the tag _object_ is not identified by it. So, in 
case you lose your .git/refs/tags/ directory, you can still reconstruct 
the tags with "git-fsck-objects --full".

Without a message, the tag can still be identified by its name, which is 
in the tag object contents.

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