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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:

> That kind of extension shouldn't be too hard, and might make tags much 
> more generally usable (ie you could say "I sign these <n> official 
> releases" or something).

Well, I admit that once I advocated changing "tag" to "bag", but
one problem is how you would dereference something like that.

"v0.99.5^0" means "look at the named object v0.99.5, dereference
it repeatedly until you get a non-tag, and take the result,
which had better be a commit".  If a tag can contain more than
one pointers, I do not know what it means.