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Re: Storing state in $GIT_DIR

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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
Aug 26, 2005, 05:49 UTC
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:
> That kind of extension shouldn't be too hard, and might make tags much 
> more generally usable (ie you could say "I sign these <n> official 
> releases" or something).

Well, I admit that once I advocated changing "tag" to "bag", but one problem is how you would dereference something like that.

"v0.99.5^0" means "look at the named object v0.99.5, dereference it repeatedly until you get a non-tag, and take the result, which had better be a commit". If a tag can contain more than one pointers, I do not know what it means.

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Message 9 of 17 in “Storing state in $GIT_DIR”
  1. Martin LanghoffAug 25, 2005
  2. Linus TorvaldsAug 25, 2005
  3. Martin LanghoffAug 26, 2005
  4. Linus TorvaldsAug 26, 2005
  5. Martin LanghoffAug 26, 2005
  6. Junio C HamanoAug 26, 2005
  7. Daniel BarkalowAug 26, 2005
  8. Linus TorvaldsAug 26, 2005
  9. Junio C HamanoAug 26, 2005
  10. Linus TorvaldsAug 27, 2005
  11. Junio C HamanoAug 26, 2005
  12. Martin LanghoffAug 26, 2005
  13. Eric W. BiedermanAug 26, 2005
  14. Martin LanghoffAug 26, 2005
  15. Eric W. BiedermanAug 26, 2005
  16. Accept -m and friends for initial commits and merge commits.Junio C Hamano, Aug 26, 2005
  17. Martin LanghoffAug 26, 2005

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