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What is the difference between lightweight and annotated tags in Git? Why is annotated preferred for releases?

Tests whether you know annotated tags carry metadata (author, message, signature) that lightweight tags don't.

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What is the difference between lightweight and annotated tags in Git? Why is annotated preferred for releases?

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