From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 00:23:10 GMT
Subject: Re: Storing state in $GIT_DIR
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0508261722410.3317@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <7virxti6y5.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>



On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
> "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