On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 7:53 PM, Jesse Hopkins <jesse.h...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > It seems to me that when checking out to a tag, Git does not record the > *name* of the tag anywhere, but rather sets HEAD to the de-referenced > commit SHA-1. As far as I can tell, it is not possible to recover the > original name of the tag in the case of multiple tags on the same commit. > Is my conclusion correct? > I believe you are correct unless you check out to a branch named after the tag? I don't believe it will actually store the tag as part of its checkout. Ie: git checkout <tag> may show "checked out at <tag>" via status, but that is only because status uses describe to find that out.. I don't believe we store the information. You could recover it if you know something about the format so as to distinquish them, ie: if you only cared about annotated tags vs lightweight tags, for example. Regards, Jake -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
