Re: name-ref on annotated-tags is null terminated, but lightweight tags arent

Max Resnick [off-list ref] writes:

Thanks Junio for the quick response.

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Presumably the long hexadecimal are supposed to be on the same line 
as the "name-rev" command itself?                                   

Yes, sorry I didn't see that the formatting was broken before I sent.

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The suffix "^0" (which has nothing to do 
with null-termination) means "I do not mean the tag object itself, 
but the object that is pointed by it".                             

Ok, thanks. I need to unpack that a bit more. I tried to dig around in
the man to see if there was indication if that's what was expected but
didn't find anything at less for name-rev.

"git help revisions" has this, which may help.

       <rev>^[<n>], e.g. HEAD^, v1.5.1^0
                  A suffix ^ to a revision parameter means the first
                  parent of that commit object.  ^<n> means the
                  <n>th parent (i.e.  <rev>^ is equivalent to
                  <rev>^1).  As a special rule, <rev>^0 means the
                  commit itself and is used when <rev> is the object
                  name of a tag object that refers to a commit
                  object.

The help text in "git help name-rev" only says "names suitable for
human digestion", which may want to be clarified.

Thanks.