From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matt Mackall Subject: Re: newbie questions about git design and features (some wrt hg) Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 11:37:58 -0600 Message-ID: <20070202173758.GC10108@waste.org> References: <3c6c07c20701300820l42cfc8dbsb80393fc1469f667@mail.gmail.com> <200702021055.49428.jnareb@gmail.com> <20070202160317.GX10108@waste.org> <200702021818.11368.jnareb@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: mercurial@selenic.com, git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano To: Jakub Narebski X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Feb 02 18:50:35 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HD2YT-0007Lj-0S for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 02 Feb 2007 18:50:33 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1945989AbXBBRua (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Feb 2007 12:50:30 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1945991AbXBBRua (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Feb 2007 12:50:30 -0500 Received: from waste.org ([66.93.16.53]:40611 "EHLO waste.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1945989AbXBBRu3 (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Feb 2007 12:50:29 -0500 Received: from waste.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by waste.org (8.13.4/8.13.4/Debian-3sarge3) with ESMTP id l12HbwEC009564 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Fri, 2 Feb 2007 11:37:59 -0600 Received: (from oxymoron@localhost) by waste.org (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id l12Hbw3m009563; Fri, 2 Feb 2007 11:37:58 -0600 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200702021818.11368.jnareb@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 06:18:10PM +0100, Jakub Narebski wrote: > Revision-controlled (in-tree) tags are inane idea. Tags are non-moving > (and sometimes annotated) pointers to given point in history. They should > not depend on which branch you are, or what version you have checked out. And.. they don't! I'm now officially done correcting your uninformed perceptions. Come back when you've actually looked at the docs. -- Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.