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From: "Etienne Vallette d'Osia" <dohzya@gmail.com>
To: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Cc: Etienne Vallette d'Osia <dohzya@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Improve tags
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 11:30:43 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49CCAAD3.4070104@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49CBA713.4040605@drmicha.warpmail.net>

 > You described your motivation and use case very clearly!
 >
 > Maybe "label" would be an appropriate name for "non-unique tags". I
 > assume they should be local and non-versioned. It sounds as if a file
 > storing a list of sha1s could be the simplest approach (one file per
 > label in a new subdir of .git), although this may not scale well. A
 > first step could be implementing a command "git label" in shell which
 > sets and displays labels. Later on, various builtins would need to be
 > taught about it if you want labels displayed in log etc.
 >
 > Michael

Thanks a lot

"label" is perfect !

In fact, I was thinking about non-local labels.
But keeping information in a separate file and not in commit directly is 
a very nice idea (and closer than the current tag implementation).
I love your approach, you have just make this idea realizable

  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-27 10:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-26 12:48 Improve tags Etienne Vallette d'Osia
2009-03-26 16:02 ` Michael J Gruber
2009-03-27 10:30   ` Etienne Vallette d'Osia [this message]
2009-03-27 14:15     ` Jakub Narebski
2009-03-27 14:39       ` Etienne Vallette d'Osia
2009-03-26 21:53 ` Nanako Shiraishi
2009-03-27 10:05   ` Etienne Vallette d'Osia

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