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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: Tags
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Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> 
> If I really care what developer xyz tagged I will pull from them,
> or a mirror I trust.  And since developer xyz doesn't pull his
> own global tags from other repositories that should be sufficient.
> 

You're missing something totally and utterly fundamental here: I'm 
talking about creating an infrastructure (think sourceforge) where there 
is only one git repository for the whole system, period, full stop, end 
of story.

	-hpa