From: Linus Torvalds Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2005 19:30:38 GMT Subject: Re: Git-commits mailing list feed. Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20050423183406.GD20410@delft.aura.cs.cmu.edu> On Sat, 23 Apr 2005, Jan Harkes wrote: > > Why not keep the tags object outside of the tree in the tags/ directory. Because then you have all those special cases with fetching them and with fsck, and with shared object directories. In other words: no. You can have symlinks (or even better, just a single file with all the tags listed, which you can create with "fsck", for example) from the tags/ directory, but the thing is, objects go in the object directory and nowhere else. Linus