Re: git-pull and tag objects

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 15, 2007, 01:21 UTC
Message-ID: <er0cfg$1m7$1@sea.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702132230490.3604@woody.linux-foundation.org>

Linus Torvalds wrote:

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> One thing that _might_ be a good idea for tags (if people _really_ want to 
> actually update tags under the same name) is to have a "parent" pointer 
> for tag objects, the same way we have for commits. That way you could - if 
> you really wanted to - create a chain of tags, and show the history of 
> them.

Wouldn't it be better to just use reflog for given tag? That assuming of course that we could protect tag reflog from pruning...

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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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