Quantcast
Channel: simple ref vs lightweight tags in git - Stack Overflow
Browsing all 3 articles
Browse latest View live

Answer by LeGEC for simple ref vs lightweight tags in git

You are right : a lightweight tag is a simple ref.Its main specificity is that it is stored under .git/refs/tags, and that's a convention which indicates that git commands can treat it like a tag :git...

View Article



Answer by torek for simple ref vs lightweight tags in git

A ref (or the longer variant, reference ) is a name, in Git. There are many forms of references:refs/heads/xyz is the branch namexyz;refs/tags/xyz is the tag namexyz;refs/remotes/origin/xyz is the...

View Article

simple ref vs lightweight tags in git

i'm currently try to understand internal of git; my question is what is the difference between a lightweight tag and a simple ref ?based on what i've read so far, a lightweight tag is actually a file...

View Article
Browsing all 3 articles
Browse latest View live




Latest Images