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Re: Headless tags don't have a follows or precedes?

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TMTim Mazid <timmazid@hotmail.com>
Date
Nov 2, 2009, 13:16 UTC
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Dmitry Potapov wrote:
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> I have never heard tag being described as headless... A tag is just a
> pointer on some commit (annotated tag contains additional information
> such as creater, data, message), in any case, it has no direct relation
> to any branch.
> 
> Tags do not store any precedes or follows information, no matter how you
> created them, but visualization tools can look at the tree and display
> what was before some commit and what was after it. Without seeing your
> tree, it is impossible to tell whether gitk (or what you use?) displayed
> that correctly or not.
>

Well, not the tag itself, but the commit the tags points to. Same thing. Like you're always bothered to say "the commit that the tag v1 points to" rather than "the v1 tag". Also, see my post above.

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  1. Tim MazidOct 28, 2009
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