Re: newbie questions about git design and features (some wrt hg)

From: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Date: Feb 2, 2007, 17:37 UTC
Message-ID: <20070202173758.GC10108@waste.org>
In-Reply-To: <200702021818.11368.jnareb@gmail.com>

On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 06:18:10PM +0100, Jakub Narebski wrote:

> Revision-controlled (in-tree) tags are inane idea. Tags are non-moving
> (and sometimes annotated) pointers to given point in history. They should
> not depend on which branch you are, or what version you have checked out.

And.. they don't!

I'm now officially done correcting your uninformed perceptions. Come back when you've actually looked at the docs.

-- 
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