From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Giorgos Keramidas Subject: Re: newbie questions about git design and features (some wrt hg) Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 20:27:10 +0200 Message-ID: <20070202182709.GA3861@kobe.laptop> References: <3c6c07c20701300820l42cfc8dbsb80393fc1469f667@mail.gmail.com> <200702010058.43431.jnareb@gmail.com> <20070201003429.GQ10108@waste.org> <200702021055.49428.jnareb@gmail.com> <20070202175923.GA6304@xanadu.kublai.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, jnareb@gmail.com, mercurial@selenic.com, git@vger.kernel.org X-From: mercurial-bounces@selenic.com Fri Feb 02 19:31:47 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvmd-mercurial@gmane.org Received: from waste.org ([66.93.16.53]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HD3CN-0001kl-Bc for gcvmd-mercurial@gmane.org; Fri, 02 Feb 2007 19:31:47 +0100 Received: from waste.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by waste.org (8.13.4/8.13.4/Debian-3sarge3) with ESMTP id l12IG7Je014996; Fri, 2 Feb 2007 12:16:10 -0600 Received: from igloo.linux.gr (igloo.linux.gr [62.1.205.36]) by waste.org (8.13.4/8.13.4/Debian-3sarge3) with ESMTP id l12IFx5N014965 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Fri, 2 Feb 2007 12:16:04 -0600 Received: from kobe.laptop ([194.30.196.125]) (authenticated bits=128) by igloo.linux.gr (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id l12IROHF008225 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Fri, 2 Feb 2007 20:27:30 +0200 Received: from kobe.laptop (kobe.laptop [127.0.0.1]) by kobe.laptop (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l12IRB0V003889; Fri, 2 Feb 2007 20:27:22 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from keramida@localhost) by kobe.laptop (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id l12IRA1X003888; Fri, 2 Feb 2007 20:27:10 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070202175923.GA6304@xanadu.kublai.com> X-Hellug-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Hellug-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-3.732, required 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, AWL 0.47, BAYES_00 -2.60, DNS_FROM_RFC_ABUSE 0.20) X-Hellug-MailScanner-From: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr X-Spam-Status: No X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new X-BeenThere: mercurial@selenic.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: mercurial.selenic.com List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: mercurial-bounces@selenic.com Errors-To: mercurial-bounces@selenic.com Archived-At: On 2007-02-02 09:59, Brendan Cully 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.