From: Brendan Cully <brendan@kublai.com>
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 19:28:29 GMT
Subject: Re: newbie questions about git design and features (some wrt hg)
Message-ID: <20070202192829.GB7963@ventoux.cs.ubc.ca>
In-Reply-To: <200702021919.28669.jnareb@gmail.com>

On Friday, 02 February 2007 at 19:19, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> 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.

agreed.