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From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
To: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
Cc: Poojan Wagh <poojanwagh@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Q: How to tag individual files
Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2008 12:20:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080713102047.GH32184@machine.or.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080713053537.GA32746@spearce.org>

  Hi,

On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 05:35:37AM +0000, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
> Poojan Wagh <poojanwagh@gmail.com> wrote:
> > The crash course at: http://git.or.cz/course/svn.html says:
> >
> >> You usually tag commits but if you want, you can tag files (or trees, 
> >> but that's a bit low-level) as well. 
> >
> > I've done a bit of searching, and I can't for the life of me figure out  
> > how to tag an individual file. Help from the group would be much  
> > appreciated. Thanks.
..snip..
> So you can't tag individual files.  The comment is a bit misleading
> and gets far too low-level for an otherwise high-level conversion
> guide.

  I have tried to make this less misleading, thanks for noticing. I kept
the mention, though, because I think people should not be misled to
thinking that only commits are tagged, and then get confused when they
first meet v2.6.11.

-- 
				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
GNU, n. An animal of South Africa, which in its domesticated state
resembles a horse, a buffalo and a stag. In its wild condition it is
something like a thunderbolt, an earthquake and a cyclone. -- A. Pierce

      parent reply	other threads:[~2008-07-13 10:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-13  4:21 Q: How to tag individual files Poojan Wagh
2008-07-13  5:35 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-07-13  6:14   ` Poojan Wagh
2008-07-13 10:20   ` Petr Baudis [this message]

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