From: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2005 13:04:51 GMT
Subject: Re: Tags
Message-ID: <m1vf3p2yks.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0507021501450.8247@g5.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:

> (And you might also change tag contents occasionally. One reason might be
> a bug and you decide to re-tag something else. But a more common reason
> might be because you want to have tags like "latest" that don't actually
> update with development, but they update with some other event, like a
> release event or some automated test cycle completion or something like
> that. So tags aren't _immutable_ even from an expectation standpoint, 
> it's just that they tend to change _less_).

Could you include the person who generated the tag and the time the
tag was generated in the tag object?

For a tag like "latest" it would help quite a bit if you could actually
find out which was the latest version of it :)

Eric