Re: How to create tags outside of refs/tags?

From: Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de>
Date: Feb 23, 2011, 16:36 UTC
Message-ID: <20110223163634.GA16569@nibiru.local>
In-Reply-To: <7v7hcrewyz.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

* Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

Hi folks,

> I would think that using a private namespace other than tags for your own
> use (e.g. "git update-ref refs/anchor/release-20110222 $that_commit") may
> be the best option that is easiest to understand, though.

I'm doing similar things with source crawlers in the OSS-QM project: each time a new upstream version arrives, it gets tag into a queue namespace, so I can pick them up an do my usual qm works on them one by one.

git ls-remote git://pubgit.metux.de/oss-qm/glib2.git | grep queue

cu

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