Re: newbie questions about git design and features (some wrt hg)
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- Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
- Date
- Feb 2, 2007, 18:27 UTC
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- <20070202182709.GA3861@kobe.laptop>
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- <20070202175923.GA6304@xanadu.kublai.com>
On 2007-02-02 09:59, Brendan Cully <brendan@kublai.com> wrote:
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>On Friday, 02 February 2007 at 08:42, Linus Torvalds wrote: >> Tags are *independent* of history. They must be. They are "outside" >> history, since the whole point of tags are to point to history. > > Tags have history too. They are added at particular times by > particular people, and sometimes changed (this wouldn't happen in an > ideal world, but it happens). It's a shame not to be able to find this > history.
Agreed. There is a _reason_ behind the -f option of 'cvs tag'.
Sometimes, 'sliding a tag' is a real-world need. Losing the information of who did the tag sliding and when, is not good.