From: Brendan Cully <brendan@kublai.com>
To: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
mercurial@selenic.com, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: newbie questions about git design and features (some wrt hg)
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 11:28:29 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070202192829.GB7963@ventoux.cs.ubc.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200702021919.28669.jnareb@gmail.com>
On Friday, 02 February 2007 at 19:19, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> Brendan Cully wrote:
> > On Friday, 02 February 2007 at 08:42, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >>
> >> The mistake seems to be to think that tags get "versioned", and are part
> >> of the tree history. That's insane. It means that you can never have a tag
> >> to a newer tree than the one you are on.
> >
> > The tags you use can simply be those from the tip of the repository,
> > regardless of which revision you've currently checked out.
>
> _Can_ be or _are_ (in Mercurial)? Besides, there can be more than one
are. The meaning of tags depends on the repository, not the "index".
> tip of repository (branch are tips of history), and making set of tags
> dependent on which branch you are on is not a good idea either.
agreed.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-02 19:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-30 16:20 newbie questions about git design and features (some wrt hg) Mike Coleman
2007-01-30 16:41 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-01-30 16:55 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-01-31 1:55 ` Theodore Tso
2007-01-31 10:56 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-01-31 20:01 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-31 22:25 ` Matt Mackall
2007-01-31 23:58 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-02-01 0:34 ` Matt Mackall
2007-02-01 0:57 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-02-01 7:59 ` Simon 'corecode' Schubert
2007-02-01 10:09 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-02-01 10:15 ` Simon 'corecode' Schubert
2007-02-01 10:49 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-02-01 16:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-02-01 19:36 ` Eric Wong
2007-02-01 21:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-02-02 9:55 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-02-02 13:51 ` Simon 'corecode' Schubert
2007-02-02 14:23 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-02-02 15:02 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-02-02 15:38 ` Mark Wooding
2007-02-02 16:09 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-02-02 16:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-02-02 16:59 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-02-02 17:11 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-02-02 17:59 ` Brendan Cully
2007-02-02 18:19 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-02-02 19:28 ` Brendan Cully [this message]
2007-02-02 18:27 ` Giorgos Keramidas
2007-02-02 19:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-02-03 21:20 ` Giorgos Keramidas
2007-02-03 21:37 ` Matthias Kestenholz
2007-02-03 21:41 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-02-03 21:45 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-02-02 18:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-02-02 19:26 ` Brendan Cully
2007-02-02 19:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-02-02 19:55 ` Brendan Cully
2007-02-02 20:15 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-02-02 20:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-02-02 16:03 ` Matt Mackall
2007-02-02 17:18 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-02-02 17:37 ` Matt Mackall
2007-02-02 18:44 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-02-02 19:56 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-02-03 20:06 ` Brendan Cully
2007-02-03 20:55 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-02-03 21:00 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-01-30 17:44 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-01-30 18:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-01-30 19:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-01-30 18:11 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-31 3:38 ` Mike Coleman
2007-01-31 4:35 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-01-31 4:57 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-31 16:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-01-31 16:41 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-01-31 7:11 ` Mike Coleman
2007-01-31 15:03 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-01-31 16:58 ` Mike Coleman
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