gs/</code> namespace that points to an
object of an arbitrary type (typically a tag points to either a
<a href="#def_tag_object">tag</a> or a <a href="#def_commit_object">commit object</a>).
In contrast to a <a href="#def_head">head</a>, a tag is not updated by
the <code>commit</code> command. A Git tag has nothing to do with a Lisp
tag (which would be called an <a href="#def_object_type">object type</a>
in Git&#8217;s context). A tag is most typically used to mark a particular
point in the commit ancestry 