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Re: diff against a tag ?

From
MWMorten Welinder <mwelinder@gmail.com>
Date
Apr 28, 2005, 23:14 UTC
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> Right now fsck is the only thing that reports tags that aren't referenced
> some other way.

Which begs the question: why wasn't the type of the object made part of the file name?

commit-babe1234... tag-deadbeef5678... tree-c0ca4321... blob-cafe8765...

That would have simplied scripts a good deal and listing all tags would be trivial.

Morten
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