Deprecate the StringTag.set() overload taking a StringTag. (#262)

It's not a common scenario to use a Tag *key* as the tag value.
opentracing · Mar 28, 2018 · 4c5dfb5 · 4c5dfb5
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diff --git a/opentracing-api/src/main/java/io/opentracing/tag/StringTag.java b/opentracing-api/src/main/java/io/opentracing/tag/StringTag.java
@@ -25,6 +25,10 @@ public void set(Span span, String tagValue) {
         span.setTag(super.key, tagValue);
     }
 
+    /**
+     * @deprecated as using the tag *key* as tag value is not usually required.
+     */
+    @Deprecated
     public void set(Span span, StringTag tag) {
         span.setTag(super.key, tag.key);
     }