From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, jnareb@gmail.com,
mercurial@selenic.com, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: newbie questions about git design and features (some wrt hg)
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 20:27:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070202182709.GA3861@kobe.laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070202175923.GA6304@xanadu.kublai.com>
On 2007-02-02 09:59, Brendan Cully <brendan@kublai.com> wrote:
>On Friday, 02 February 2007 at 08:42, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>> Tags are *independent* of history. They must be. They are "outside"
>> history, since the whole point of tags are to point to history.
>
> Tags have history too. They are added at particular times by
> particular people, and sometimes changed (this wouldn't happen in an
> ideal world, but it happens). It's a shame not to be able to find this
> history.
Agreed. There is a _reason_ behind the -f option of 'cvs tag'.
Sometimes, 'sliding a tag' is a real-world need. Losing the information
of who did the tag sliding and when, is not good.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-02 18:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-30 16:20 newbie questions about git design and features (some wrt hg) Mike Coleman
2007-01-30 16:41 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-01-30 16:55 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-01-31 1:55 ` Theodore Tso
2007-01-31 10:56 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-01-31 20:01 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-31 22:25 ` Matt Mackall
2007-01-31 23:58 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-02-01 0:34 ` Matt Mackall
2007-02-01 0:57 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-02-01 7:59 ` Simon 'corecode' Schubert
2007-02-01 10:09 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-02-01 10:15 ` Simon 'corecode' Schubert
2007-02-01 10:49 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-02-01 16:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-02-01 19:36 ` Eric Wong
2007-02-01 21:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-02-02 9:55 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-02-02 13:51 ` Simon 'corecode' Schubert
2007-02-02 14:23 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-02-02 15:02 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-02-02 15:38 ` Mark Wooding
2007-02-02 16:09 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-02-02 16:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-02-02 16:59 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-02-02 17:11 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-02-02 17:59 ` Brendan Cully
2007-02-02 18:19 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-02-02 19:28 ` Brendan Cully
2007-02-02 18:27 ` Giorgos Keramidas [this message]
2007-02-02 19:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-02-03 21:20 ` Giorgos Keramidas
2007-02-03 21:37 ` Matthias Kestenholz
2007-02-03 21:41 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-02-03 21:45 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-02-02 18:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-02-02 19:26 ` Brendan Cully
2007-02-02 19:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-02-02 19:55 ` Brendan Cully
2007-02-02 20:15 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-02-02 20:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-02-02 16:03 ` Matt Mackall
2007-02-02 17:18 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-02-02 17:37 ` Matt Mackall
2007-02-02 18:44 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-02-02 19:56 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-02-03 20:06 ` Brendan Cully
2007-02-03 20:55 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-02-03 21:00 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-01-30 17:44 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-01-30 18:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-01-30 19:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-01-30 18:11 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-31 3:38 ` Mike Coleman
2007-01-31 4:35 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-01-31 4:57 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-31 16:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-01-31 16:41 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-01-31 7:11 ` Mike Coleman
2007-01-31 15:03 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-01-31 16:58 ` Mike Coleman
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