From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 05:49:06 GMT
Subject: Re: Storing state in $GIT_DIR
Message-ID: <7virxti6y5.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0508252219520.3317@g5.osdl.org>

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.