struct create_tag_options {
unsigned int message_given:1;
+ unsigned int use_editor:1;
unsigned int sign;
enum {
CLEANUP_NONE,
"tag %s\n"
"tagger %s\n\n",
oid_to_hex(object),
- typename(type),
+ type_name(type),
tag,
git_committer_info(IDENT_STRICT));
- if (!opt->message_given) {
+ if (!opt->message_given || opt->use_editor) {
int fd;
/* write the template message before editing: */
if (fd < 0)
die_errno(_("could not create file '%s'"), path);
- if (!is_null_oid(prev)) {
+ if (opt->message_given) {
+ write_or_die(fd, buf->buf, buf->len);
+ strbuf_reset(buf);
+ } else if (!is_null_oid(prev)) {
write_tag_body(fd, prev);
} else {
struct strbuf buf = STRBUF_INIT;
static struct ref_sorting *sorting = NULL, **sorting_tail = &sorting;
struct ref_format format = REF_FORMAT_INIT;
int icase = 0;
+ int edit_flag = 0;
struct option options[] = {
OPT_CMDMODE('l', "list", &cmdmode, N_("list tag names"), 'l'),
{ OPTION_INTEGER, 'n', NULL, &filter.lines, N_("n"),
OPT_CALLBACK('m', "message", &msg, N_("message"),
N_("tag message"), parse_msg_arg),
OPT_FILENAME('F', "file", &msgfile, N_("read message from file")),
+ OPT_BOOL('e', "edit", &edit_flag, N_("force edit of tag message")),
OPT_BOOL('s', "sign", &opt.sign, N_("annotated and GPG-signed tag")),
OPT_STRING(0, "cleanup", &cleanup_arg, N_("mode"),
N_("how to strip spaces and #comments from message")),
die(_("tag '%s' already exists"), tag);
opt.message_given = msg.given || msgfile;
+ opt.use_editor = edit_flag;
if (!cleanup_arg || !strcmp(cleanup_arg, "strip"))
opt.cleanup_mode = CLEANUP_ALL;