From: Etienne Vallette d'Osia Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 10:30:43 GMT Subject: Re: Improve tags Message-ID: <49CCAAD3.4070104@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <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