[U-Boot] U-Boot git usage model

Wolfgang Denk
2012-10-13T19:08:01Z

Dear Stephen Warren,

In message <5076FB24.1080600@wwwdotorg.org> you wrote:
>
> True, tags can be moved. However, the point wasn't that they're
> immutable, but that using them can decouple the pull process from the
> commit process. For example, I could:
>
> git checkout -b foo bar
> git am
> git am
> git am
> git tag -s tag1 foo
> send pull request
> not wait for pull to complete
> git am
> git am
> git am
> git tag -s tag2 foo
> send pull request

What do you need tags here for? The git commit ID's itself will be as
good.

On contrary - using your proposed style, you sill just pollute the tag
namespace with tons of more or less random tags.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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