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Re: why is tagger header optional?

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jan 19, 2010, 06:31 UTC
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"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org> writes:
> So why is it legal to omit the tagger header from a tag?
>
> E.g. the Linux kernel tag v2.6.12 has no tagger header:

We didn't.add tagger line until c818566 ([PATCH] Update tags to record who made them, 2005-07-14), which is v0.99.1~9

Linux 2.6.12 is a lot older than that. v2.6.13-rc4 in late July is the first one with tagger.

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