From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Brendan Cully Subject: Re: newbie questions about git design and features (some wrt hg) Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 11:28:29 -0800 Message-ID: <20070202192829.GB7963@ventoux.cs.ubc.ca> References: <3c6c07c20701300820l42cfc8dbsb80393fc1469f667@mail.gmail.com> <20070202175923.GA6304@xanadu.kublai.com> <200702021919.28669.jnareb@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Linus Torvalds , mercurial@selenic.com, git@vger.kernel.org To: Jakub Narebski X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Feb 02 20:28:36 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 1HD45M-0000of-3p for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 02 Feb 2007 20:28:36 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1423145AbXBBT2c (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Feb 2007 14:28:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1423162AbXBBT2c (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Feb 2007 14:28:32 -0500 Received: from zakopane.cs.ubc.ca ([198.162.52.68]:60280 "EHLO mail.quuxuum.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1423145AbXBBT2b (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Feb 2007 14:28:31 -0500 Received: from zakopane.cs.ubc.ca (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mail.quuxuum.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44DA85C407 for ; Fri, 2 Feb 2007 11:28:30 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=kublai.com; h=received:received:received:date:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version:content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:x-operating-system:user-agent:x-delivery-agent:from:mail-followup-to; q=dns; s=dk; bh=NKQ3VqzQV2D9bKPZp/E7pbQH7lg=; b=lWWXOx8HPyJ2pZ4JUrlk8IWkZ8FOr8dYjtEfhgm6akPexSeeT36eLHLT6buoLnHKXAjrxERSdwZ7lLInZdbJsYNbSI/4dXayprplvghAA4tp+Dqu3496HR27WLVGrgrVw0l9Y8bsDHCcvdW+V3962tNgsCkSZfHTmC2TI0Jstoo= Received: by zakopane.cs.ubc.ca (tmda-sendmail, from uid 103); Fri, 02 Feb 2007 11:28:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from ventoux.cs.ubc.ca (ventoux.cs.ubc.ca [198.162.52.72]) by mail.quuxuum.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FB7A5C1EC; Fri, 2 Feb 2007 11:28:29 -0800 (PST) Received: by ventoux.cs.ubc.ca (Postfix, from userid 3121) id 5C2C9340B5; Fri, 2 Feb 2007 11:28:29 -0800 (PST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200702021919.28669.jnareb@gmail.com> X-Operating-System: Linux 2.6.17-10-generic i686 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-11-21) X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.0.3 (Seattle Slew) Mail-Followup-To: jnareb@gmail.com, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, mercurial@selenic.com, git@vger.kernel.org Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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.