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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
git, python
Domain
devtools

Research direction

Start with repo.references.iterator(ReferenceFilter.TAGS) and inspect how tag references are currently exposed. Determine how the iterator can distinguish lightweight tags from annotated tags, then verify that both kinds report their correct type through the Python bindings. Done means callers can enumerate tags and tell which category each tag belongs to.

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Description

I was trying to do the equivalent of git for-each-ref refs/tags and get which tags are lightweight and which ones are annotated. The closest that I could find was repo.references.iterator(ReferenceFilter.TAGS), but all had the same type.

Dominant language
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