Re: [QUESTION] What is a tag for?

From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date: Jan 17, 2006, 23:05 UTC
Message-ID: <20060117230537.GK28365@pasky.or.cz>
In-Reply-To: <1137538344.9104.34.camel@malory>

Hi,

Dear diary, on Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 11:52:24PM CET, I got a letter where Alex Bennee <kernel-hacker@bennee.com> said that...

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> So I want to track Linus's 2.6 git tree as well as do a little small
> time hacking. I'm not brave enough to sit on the very bleeding edge and
> build what ever happens to be at the "HEAD" of the tree. However when a
> kernel releases I'd like to build *that* kernel.
> 
> I keep thinking of tags like labels in the old convetional SCM case. Is
> this correct? I can see once I've done my update (fetch/cogito what
> ever) that these tags apear in my local tree:
> 
> 22:42 alex@malory [linux-2.6] >cat .git/refs/tags/v2.6.16-rc1
> f3bcf72eb85aba88a7bd0a6116dd0b5418590dbe
> 
> So what do I do with them now? Are they only for branch points? Is the
> only way to know I'm building 2.6.16-rc1 to branch from it as described
> in git-branch, even if I'm not planning on doing any development?

  the simplest thing to do in Cogito if you just want to follow tags
around is to cg-fetch periodically (that will get the changes to your
local database, but will not check them out), and cg-seek around to
whatever tag you want:

	$ cg-fetch
	$ cg-seek v2.6.16-rc1
	$ cg-fetch
	... no new tag ...
	$ cg-fetch
	... still no new tag ...
	$ cg-fetch
	... Linus, are you sleeping? ...
	$ cg-fetch
	$ cg-seek v2.6.16-rc2
	...

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