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How to create tags outside of refs/tags?

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Christian Halstrick <christian.halstrick@gmail.com>
Date
Feb 21, 2011, 17:21 UTC
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I would like to create a tag which full name is not starting with refs/tags. Is that possible with 'git tag'? If not, is there any other command to create such tags?

I would like to create such tags to mark released states of my sources which should never be garbage collected in case no branch is pointing them anymore. On the other hand these tags should not pollute the namespace of normal tags, means: don't want a 'git tag' command to list those technical tags.

Ciao
 Chris
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