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Re: merging initial part of a branch?

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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
Jan 13, 2006, 04:00 UTC
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"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> writes:
> That's the only reference I can find to the "tag <tag>" notation, and
> it's a bit unhelpful as written.  (What backward compatibility?)
>
> How about the following?--b.
Makes sense.  Thanks.

Backward compatibility is that it was only either "<branch>" or "tag <tag>". When heads/branch or tags/tag came later, supporting the separate word form "tag <tag>" was a bit cumbersome but was done for b/c.

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