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git/cogito suggestion: tags with descriptions

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ZBZack Brown <zbrown@tumblerings.org>
Date
Sep 5, 2005, 18:45 UTC
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<20050905184551.GA14720@tumblerings.org>
Hi folks,
I've been using git on my new projects, and loving it!

When I use tags, I typically will use a name like "0.3_basic_description" and "0.4_full_outline", because I want to know not only what version number I'm considering, but also the reason why I chose to tag that particular version.

The problem is that when I want to seek to a particular version to see where my head was at, I have to do all that typing, or cut and paste the full text of the tag, which is not terribly annoying, but it seems unnecessary. The version number is the unique ID I'm really interested in, and the descriptive part of the name is just extra, so I know what I'm talking about.

It would be great if tags also allowed a brief description to go along with them, that would show up in cg-tag-ls. Then I could seek to a tag that's just an easy-to-type version number, and still have an idea of what's significant about that version because of the descriptive text.

Be well, Zack

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Zack Brown
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