From: David Woodhouse Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 01:26:36 GMT Subject: Re: Git-commits mailing list feed. Message-ID: <1114392397.3419.97.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: On Sat, 2005-04-23 at 10:31 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > In other words, I actually want to create "tag objects", the same way we > have "commit objects". A tag object points to a commit object, but in > addition it contains the tag name _and_ the digital signature of whoever > created the tag. I'm slightly concerned that to find a given tag by its name if we do _just_ the above would be a fairly slow process. I suspect you'll want a .git/tags/ directory _anyway_, but with named files which refer to tag objects, instead of directly to commit objects as in Petr's current implementation. Other operations we might want to be at least _reasonably_ efficient would include 'show me the latest tag from Linus' and 'show me all extant tags'. -- dwmw2