Re: linux-2.6.21-gitN - versioning question

[Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>]

[Jan Engelhardt - Sat, May 12, 2007 at 05:01:19PM +0200]
| 
| On May 12 2007 21:44, David Woodhouse wrote:
| >On Sat, 2007-05-12 at 17:19 +0400, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
| >> Actually I think it would be convenient if such tags (like
| >> v.2.6.21-git16) were in Linus' git tree too.
| >
| >Then there would be _lots_ of tags in the master tree -- I'm not sure we
			^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| >want that.
| >
| >I suppose I could put a tree on kernel.org which _does_ have the tags,
| >and which precisely matches Linus' tree in every other way... but then
| >again, you could do that too by just rsyncing the tags yourself :)
| 
| Are you saying GIT tags are expensive, compared to, say, SVN tags?
| 
| 
| 	Jan
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| 

Hi Jan,

you know the current Linus' git tree does contain ~62 tags
(if I'm right). And of coure that's very small number of files
compared to the number of blobs in the master tree. So I think the
reason to don't use a lot of tags - is just... well... a lot of
tags in the git tree ;)

[Don't beat me ;]

		Cyrill