Re: Individual file snapshots

From: Ron Garret <ron1@flownet.com>
Date: Feb 12, 2010, 17:24 UTC
Message-ID: <ron1-278C58.09242712022010@news.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1002121316260.10583@ds9.cixit.se>

In article <alpine.DEB.2.00.1002121316260.10583@ds9.cixit.se>,
 Peter Krefting <peter@softwolves.pp.se> wrote:

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> Ron Garret:
> 
> > I would like to be able to store snapshots of individual files without 
> > making a commit on the main branch.
> 
>    git hash-object -w filename
> 
> will add the file to the object database, outputting it's hash value.
> 
>    git tag mytag hashvalue
> 
> creates a tag "mytag" pointing to that file.
> 
>    git show mytag
> 
> will output the file you put in.

Ah, cool! Thanks. I knew about git hash-object, but I did not know that you could tag the resulting hash. I thought you could only tag commit objects.

rg