"Robert P. J. Day" <rpj...@crashcourse.ca> writes:
> embarrassed to admit i had no idea that you could tag non-commit
> objects, only realized that when i was reading the man page and saw:
>
> SYNOPSIS
> git tag [-a | -s | -u <keyid>] [-f] [-m <msg> | -F <file>] [-e]
> <tagname> [<commit> | <object>]
> ^^^^^^^^
>
> so i tried it and, sure enough, i could tag a blob object. but if you
> read further into DESCRIPTION, about halfway through, you read:
>
> "Otherwise just a tag reference for the SHA-1 object name of the
> commit object is created (i.e. a lightweight tag)."
> ^^^^^^
>
> which suggests only commit objects. finally, much further down, under
> OPTIONS:
>
> "<commit>, <object>
> The object that the new tag will refer to, usually a commit.
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> so to clean this up, is it sufficient to just change that middle line
> to say "object" rather than "commit object"? or is there more in the
> man page that needs tweaking?
As that sentence talks about a lightweight tag (i.e. a reference in
refs/tags/ hierarchy that directly points at an object of any kind),
another possibility would be to say
Otherwise a tag reference that directly points at the given
object (i.e. lightweight tag) is created.
