From b431b2822f361efcb940adbc1f2097e122e90ed9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2006 22:33:04 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Check that a tag exists using show-ref instead of looking for
 the ref file.

Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
---
 git-tag.sh | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/git-tag.sh b/git-tag.sh
index 6463b314c6..a3f1819b0e 100755
--- a/git-tag.sh
+++ b/git-tag.sh
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ done
 name="$1"
 [ "$name" ] || usage
 prev=0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
-if test -e "$GIT_DIR/refs/tags/$name"
+if git-show-ref --verify --quiet -- "refs/tags/$name"
 then
     test -n "$force" || die "tag '$name' already exists"
     prev=`git rev-parse "refs/tags/$name"`