Dirk S=FCsserott wrote:
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> So what's the difference then between 9d8318051 and 1d2375d?
> gitk doesn't know about 9d8318051 at all. Seems that there are
> two ways to get to v1.5.5: via 9d... and via 1d.... Is that right
> or did I misunderstand sth. here?

9d8318051 is a tag object that creates the v1.5.5 tag:

$ git cat-file -p 9d8318051
object 1d2375ddfee18bd3effd2c1f98527cc2f8b1df0a
type commit
tag v1.5.5
tagger Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Mon Apr 7 21:57:56 2008 -0700

GIT 1.5.5
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