Re: Q: How to tag individual files

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Jul 13, 2008, 05:35 UTC
Message-ID: <20080713053537.GA32746@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <g5bvte$52j$1@ger.gmane.org>

Poojan Wagh <poojanwagh@gmail.com> wrote:

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> The crash course at: http://git.or.cz/course/svn.html says:
>
>> You usually tag commits but if you want, you can tag files (or trees, 
>> but that's a bit low-level) as well. 
>
> I've done a bit of searching, and I can't for the life of me figure out  
> how to tag an individual file. Help from the group would be much  
> appreciated. Thanks.

You don't tag individual files. Git is snapshot based. You tag the entire project at once.

The comment you quoted was talking about tagging a single listing of blobs (a tree) or a single blob (stream of bytes). This can be handy in rare cases. In the linux kernel for example the prior history was stored by tagging the tree of that prior history, as there was no git based history preceeding that snapshot, so there were no commits to tag. In git.git Junio publishes his GnuPG public key as a tagged blob, making it available to validate signed tag objects.

So you can't tag individual files. The comment is a bit misleading and gets far too low-level for an otherwise high-level conversion guide.

-- 
Shawn.