From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alex Bennee Subject: [QUESTION] What is a tag for? Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 22:52:24 +0000 Message-ID: <1137538344.9104.34.camel@malory> Reply-To: kernel-hacker@bennee.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Jan 17 23:52:46 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Eyzgd-0007Ka-RZ for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 23:52:24 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932483AbWAQWwV (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jan 2006 17:52:21 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932484AbWAQWwV (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jan 2006 17:52:21 -0500 Received: from mta07-winn.ispmail.ntl.com ([81.103.221.47]:59764 "EHLO mta07-winn.ispmail.ntl.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932483AbWAQWwU (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jan 2006 17:52:20 -0500 Received: from aamta12-winn.ispmail.ntl.com ([81.103.221.35]) by mta07-winn.ispmail.ntl.com with ESMTP id <20060117225216.PBX11753.mta07-winn.ispmail.ntl.com@aamta12-winn.ispmail.ntl.com> for ; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 22:52:16 +0000 Received: from jack.nin ([81.97.154.68]) by aamta12-winn.ispmail.ntl.com with ESMTP id <20060117225216.ZPNJ20369.aamta12-winn.ispmail.ntl.com@jack.nin> for ; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 22:52:16 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.3] (helo=malory) by jack.nin with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1EyzgT-0004mU-00 for ; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 22:52:13 +0000 To: git@vger.kernel.org X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.2.1 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, So I want to track Linus's 2.6 git tree as well as do a little small time hacking. I'm not brave enough to sit on the very bleeding edge and build what ever happens to be at the "HEAD" of the tree. However when a kernel releases I'd like to build *that* kernel. I keep thinking of tags like labels in the old convetional SCM case. Is this correct? I can see once I've done my update (fetch/cogito what ever) that these tags apear in my local tree: 22:42 alex@malory [linux-2.6] >cat .git/refs/tags/v2.6.16-rc1 f3bcf72eb85aba88a7bd0a6116dd0b5418590dbe So what do I do with them now? Are they only for branch points? Is the only way to know I'm building 2.6.16-rc1 to branch from it as described in git-branch, even if I'm not planning on doing any development? Is this part of the concept that branches are cheap and you should feel free to create and throw them away at will? I look forward to your elucidation and the ah! moment that finally gets my head around git ;-) Cheers, -- Alex, homepage: http://www.bennee.com/~alex/ Zoe: "So.. Trap?" Mal: "Trap." Zoe: "We goin' in?" Mal: "Ain't nothin' but a few hours out." Wash: "But, remember the part where it's a trap?"