This fix makes libgit2 capable of parsing annotated tag objects that lack the optional message/description field. Previously, libgit2 treated this field as mandatory and raised a tag_error on such tags. However, the message field is optional. An example of such a tag is refs/tags/v2.6.16.31-rc1 in Linux: $ git cat-file tag refs/tags/v2.6.16.31-rc1 object afaa018cefb6af63befef1df7d8febaae904434f type commit tag v2.6.16.31-rc1 tagger Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> 1162716505 +0100 $