On Mar 11, 2:07 pm, vfclists <vfcli...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Does tagging automatically create a commit, or does it apply to the > latest commit? There are two kinds of tags: simple tags and annotated tags. Simple tag just names a commit while an annotated tag is a blob which contains a message, references a commit it is attached to, and can be signed. In any case, neither of this kinds of tag creates a commit in the sense of moving a branch tip.
Also tags can be attached to any object stored by Git, not only commits, and when a tag is applied to a commit object, it can be any commit object, not necessarily the tip of a branch. For instance, you can put a "detached" file in the Git DB and tag it to later access it by convenient name: $ NAME=`git hash-object -w myfile.txt` $ git tag myfile-tag $NAME and then later you can do $ git show myfile-tag >myfile.txt -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Git for human beings" group. To post to this group, send email to git-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/git-users?hl=en.
