diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/storage/pack/PackWriter.java b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/storage/pack/PackWriter.java
index f088d3224..dc33e4ece 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/storage/pack/PackWriter.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/storage/pack/PackWriter.java
@@ -968,10 +968,10 @@ public class PackWriter {
 		if (cnt <= 4096) {
 			// For small object counts, do everything as one list.
 			BlockList<ObjectToPack> tmp = new BlockList<ObjectToPack>(cnt);
+			tmp.addAll(objectsLists[Constants.OBJ_TAG]);
 			tmp.addAll(objectsLists[Constants.OBJ_COMMIT]);
 			tmp.addAll(objectsLists[Constants.OBJ_TREE]);
 			tmp.addAll(objectsLists[Constants.OBJ_BLOB]);
-			tmp.addAll(objectsLists[Constants.OBJ_TAG]);
 			searchForReuse(monitor, tmp);
 			if (pruneCurrentObjectList) {
 				// If the list was pruned, we need to re-prune the main lists.
@@ -982,10 +982,10 @@ public class PackWriter {
 			}
 
 		} else {
+			searchForReuse(monitor, objectsLists[Constants.OBJ_TAG]);
 			searchForReuse(monitor, objectsLists[Constants.OBJ_COMMIT]);
 			searchForReuse(monitor, objectsLists[Constants.OBJ_TREE]);
 			searchForReuse(monitor, objectsLists[Constants.OBJ_BLOB]);
-			searchForReuse(monitor, objectsLists[Constants.OBJ_TAG]);
 		}
 
 		endPhase(monitor);