Why should I care about lightweight vs. annotated tags?

Question

I switched from Subversion to Git as my day-to-day VCS last year and am still trying to grasp the finer points of \"Git-think\".

The one which has been bothering me

Answer 1

My personal, slightly different view on that topic:

• Annotated tags are those tags meant to be published for other developers, most probably new versions (which should also be signed). Not only to see who tagged and when it was tagged, but also why (usually a changelog).
• Lightweight are more appropriate for private use, that means tagging special commits to be able to find them again. May it be to review them, check them out to test something or whatever.