Dan Holmsand wrote: > So why not add tags to the branch itself? > > It should be pretty straightforward: just make git look for tag refs in, > say, a .gittags tree in the current HEAD. The whole thing would pretty > much as if you've symlinked .git/refs/tags to .gittags in the current > working tree, except that tag refs would have to be read directly from > the repository. > > That way, tag refs could be handled pretty much just like any other > git-managed file: they can be added, deleted, changed, merged, > committed, etc. We could track their history, and see who tagged what > and when. Sounds like the way mercurial handles tags. It really seemed weird to me at first, but the more I think about it, the more it makes sense. Even more so after reading this thread :-) http://www.serpentine.com/mercurial/index.cgi?Tag Kevin - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Sat Jul 09 16:54:11 2005
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