Re: Why aren't tag refs namespaced?

Nathan Gray <n8gray@n8gray.org> writes:

Because the assumed development model for "people work inside their private world (i.e. "branch"), but integration happens in common namespace (i.e. somebody eventually pushes to "master branch" of the repository that every project participant considers authoritative) and the end product of the project is tagged there for everybody's consumption. When something is called "version 1.0", it only invites confusion if _my_ Git version 1.0 is different from _your_ Git version 1.0, and it makes no sense for tags used in this manner not to be in a global single namespace. People need to qualify such "version 1.0" as "Junio's version 1.0" vs "Nathan's version 1.0" if they want to avoid confusion anyway, and at that point you would not be talking about refs/tags/v1.0, but refs/tags/jc/v1.0 vs refs/tags/ng/v1.0 or something.

Other workflows that use private tags are possible and they might benefit from having separate namespaces; it is just that they are not the workflow Git was originally designed to support.