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From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Subject: Re: merging initial part of a branch?
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On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 08:00:06PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Backward compatibility is that it was only either "<branch>" or
> "tag <tag>".  When heads/branch or tags/tag came later,
> supporting the separate word form "tag <tag>" was a bit
> cumbersome but was done for b/c.

Thanks for the explanation, makes sense.

I might try to put together some more extensive documentation patches
over the next couple weeks if you're willing to take them.  Plain git
actually seems to have pretty usable interfaces at this point, but it's
not always obvious where to find them....

I also have Yet Another Git Tutorial, at
http://www.fieldses.org/~bfields/kernel/git.html.  (Corrections and
suggestions welcomed.)

--b.