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From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
To: Zack Brown <zbrown@tumblerings.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git/cogito suggestion: tags with descriptions
Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2005 12:01:40 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vd5nn49uz.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050905184551.GA14720@tumblerings.org> (Zack Brown's message of "Mon, 5 Sep 2005 11:45:51 -0700")

Zack Brown <zbrown@tumblerings.org> writes:

> It would be great if tags also allowed a brief description to go along with
> them, that would show up in cg-tag-ls. Then I could seek to a tag that's just
> an easy-to-type version number, and still have an idea of what's significant
> about that version because of the descriptive text.

Would 'git tag -a' work for you?

: siamese; git tag -a -m 'This is to just demonstrate.' test-for-brown
: siamese; git cat-file tag test-for-brown
object 0516de30e8bdd26086e2a3edd3375981fd0c34d6
type commit
tag test-for-brown
tagger Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> 1125946805 -0700

This is to just demonstrate.
: siamese; 

BTW, when will the next issue of GIT traffic appear ;-)?

  reply	other threads:[~2005-09-05 19:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-05 18:45 git/cogito suggestion: tags with descriptions Zack Brown
2005-09-05 19:01 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2005-09-05 21:24   ` Zack Brown
2005-09-12  1:00     ` Petr Baudis
2006-04-08  2:35       ` Petr Baudis
2005-09-08  1:14 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-09-08  2:10   ` A Large Angry SCM

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