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From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
Subject: Re: why is tagger header optional?
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 22:32:56 -0800
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org> writes:
> 
> > So why is it legal to omit the tagger header from a tag?
> >
> > E.g. the Linux kernel tag v2.6.12 has no tagger header:
> 
> We didn't.add tagger line until c818566 ([PATCH] Update tags to record who
> made them, 2005-07-14), which is v0.99.1~9
> 
> Linux 2.6.12 is a lot older than that.  v2.6.13-rc4 in late July is the
> first one with tagger.

Ugh.  So its like the 100640 or whatever mode tags in the kernel
trees that are also considered bogus by today's standards, but have
to be allowed because of the kernel history.

Thanks.

-- 
Shawn.