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Re: Storing state in $GIT_DIR

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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date
Aug 27, 2005, 00:23 UTC
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On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> 
> "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.

Yeah, we'd have to either just say "I can't do that, Dave", or specify that it only looks at the first object in the list.

		Linus
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  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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