Use 'authored_date' instead of 'committed_date' for simple tags
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Annotated tags have a created date, but simple tags do not. We correctly use the created date for annotated tags, but the committed date is misleading for annotated tags.
Proposal
Use authored_date for simple tags
Original report
Zendesk ticket: https://gitlab.zendesk.com/agent/tickets/83757
A customer is saying that the authored_date on a tag currently shows when the commit the tag points to was created, instead of when the tag itself was authored.
I'd like to submit a bug saying that this could be explained more explicitly, since an annotated tag will contain a lot of the same data (author name, date, and so on) a commit would.
At the same time, I'd also like to request a feature for GitLab to let me get the creation date of tags which has this information (like annotated tags).
My sincere apologies for the ambiguity! =)
(But I would submit that it's easy for human eyes to glass over the fact that 'authored_date' is inside the 'commit' JSON dict/map when reading your example on the link I provided).
He linked here: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/api/tags.html
/cc @jramsay