Re: newbie questions about git design and features (some wrt hg)
On Friday, 02 February 2007 at 19:19, Jakub Narebski wrote:
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> Brendan Cully wrote:
> > On Friday, 02 February 2007 at 08:42, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >>
> >> The mistake seems to be to think that tags get "versioned", and are part
> >> of the tree history. That's insane. It means that you can never have a tag
> >> to a newer tree than the one you are on.
> >
> > The tags you use can simply be those from the tip of the repository,
> > regardless of which revision you've currently checked out.
>
> _Can_ be or _are_ (in Mercurial)? Besides, there can be more than one
are. The meaning of tags depends on the repository, not the "index".
> tip of repository (branch are tips of history), and making set of tags
> dependent on which branch you are on is not a good idea either.