Re: Improve tags
- From
Etienne Vallette d'Osia <dohzya@gmail.com>
- Date
- Mar 27, 2009, 10:30 UTC
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- <49CCAAD3.4070104@gmail.com>
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- <49CBA713.4040605@drmicha.warpmail.net>
> You described your motivation and use case very clearly! > > Maybe "label" would be an appropriate name for "non-unique tags". I > assume they should be local and non-versioned. It sounds as if a file > storing a list of sha1s could be the simplest approach (one file per > label in a new subdir of .git), although this may not scale well. A > first step could be implementing a command "git label" in shell which > sets and displays labels. Later on, various builtins would need to be > taught about it if you want labels displayed in log etc. > > Michael
Thanks a lot
"label" is perfect !
In fact, I was thinking about non-local labels. But keeping information in a separate file and not in commit directly is a very nice idea (and closer than the current tag implementation). I love your approach, you have just make this idea realizable