From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michal Novotny Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] git-tag: Allow --points-at syntax to create a tag pointing to specified commit Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 15:36:06 +0100 Message-ID: <5141E056.3090808@redhat.com> References: <4150f65f3e425d6120ed80c6bec36c1fe209a876.1363264398.git.minovotn@redhat.com> <20130314133629.GA4256@serenity.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: John Keeping X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Mar 14 15:36:47 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UG9Gp-00089G-1l for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Thu, 14 Mar 2013 15:36:39 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756917Ab3CNOgM (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Mar 2013 10:36:12 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:30464 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756123Ab3CNOgL (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Mar 2013 10:36:11 -0400 Received: from int-mx11.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx11.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.24]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r2EEa8mq028149 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Thu, 14 Mar 2013 10:36:08 -0400 Received: from miglaptop.brq.redhat.com (dhcp-1-114.brq.redhat.com [10.34.1.114]) by int-mx11.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r2EEa6oQ018541; Thu, 14 Mar 2013 10:36:07 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130219 Thunderbird/17.0.3 In-Reply-To: <20130314133629.GA4256@serenity.lan> X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.68 on 10.5.11.24 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 03/14/2013 02:36 PM, John Keeping wrote: > On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 01:34:54PM +0100, Michal Novotny wrote: >> This patch adds the option to specify SHA-1 commit hash using --points-at >> option of git tag to create a tag pointing to a historical commit. > What does this do that "git tag " doesn't? Oh, interesting. It's working now and I didn't know that as it was not working some time ago I've been trying this approach. Maybe it's been added recently as I also saw several sites having different approach of tagging to specified commit (usually creating a new branch, tagging there and rebasing etc.). Thanks for information! Michal -- Michal Novotny , RHCE, Red Hat Virtualization | libvirt-php bindings | php-virt-control.org