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

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 2, 2007, 20:15 UTC
Message-ID: <200702022115.31571.jnareb@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070202195504.GC7963@ventoux.cs.ubc.ca>

Brendan Cully wrote:

> Just because a tag is created at a different time than the revision it
> tags, that doesn't mean that it is ahistorical. It's still interesting
> to know what the state of the repository was when the tag was
> created.

I think not. Why would one want to know what was the state of the repository when the tag (perhaps to some historical, old commit) was created?

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland

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