From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jakub Narebski Subject: Re: newbie questions about git design and features (some wrt hg) Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 21:15:31 +0100 Message-ID: <200702022115.31571.jnareb@gmail.com> References: <200702010058.43431.jnareb@gmail.com> <20070202195504.GC7963@ventoux.cs.ubc.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Linus Torvalds , mercurial@selenic.com, git@vger.kernel.org To: Brendan Cully X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Feb 02 21:14:20 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 1HD4nb-0005GG-Bh for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 02 Feb 2007 21:14:19 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1946040AbXBBUOM (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Feb 2007 15:14:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1946041AbXBBUOM (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Feb 2007 15:14:12 -0500 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.170]:49261 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1946040AbXBBUOM (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Feb 2007 15:14:12 -0500 Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 44so858535uga for ; Fri, 02 Feb 2007 12:14:10 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=V+50tWo+jS7fAbFQKUt/CKlLJ8sxWvpjKJ44x33FVmBUmuTneZh3amCyPtAyYJ2NsAkv3+NIQQ7m0B6h124XnCltzX9SPwjrHP1TecDhZ3Bo+vmwcUNfH65vH6/gr01eLERp0tp7MokaqVdJwWKt+oQkpfvEjRPdnp+NET1ZSNk= Received: by 10.67.106.3 with SMTP id i3mr4886650ugm.1170447250244; Fri, 02 Feb 2007 12:14:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from host-81-190-29-4.torun.mm.pl ( [81.190.29.4]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id 32sm5899582ugf.2007.02.02.12.14.09; Fri, 02 Feb 2007 12:14:10 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 In-Reply-To: <20070202195504.GC7963@ventoux.cs.ubc.ca> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Brendan Cully wrote: > Just because a tag is created at a different time than the revision it > tags, that doesn't mean that it is ahistorical. It's still interesting > to know what the state of the repository was when the tag was > created. I think not. Why would one want to know what was the state of the repository when the tag (perhaps to some historical, old commit) was created? -- Jakub Narebski Poland