From: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Updated git HOWTO for kernel hackers
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 10:30:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050623083025.GA5066@ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0506222225010.11175@ppc970.osdl.org>
On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 10:58:13PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> And thinking that "fetching a tree fetches all the tags from that tree"
> really _is_ a stupid decision. It's missing the big picture. It's missing
> the fact that tags _should_ be normal every-day things that you just use
> as "book-marks", and that the kind of big "synchronization point for many
> people" tag should actually be the _rare_ case.
>
> The fact that global tags make that private "bookmark" usage impossible
> should be a big red blinking sign saying "don't do global tags".
Maybe it'd make sense to differentiate between the two types of tags?
To have local tags which don't propagate, and global (version) tags
which do? They could live in different namespaces and thus wouldn't
interfere.
--
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs, SuSE CR
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-23 8:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 98+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-22 22:24 Updated git HOWTO for kernel hackers Jeff Garzik
2005-06-22 22:40 ` Dave Jones
2005-06-22 22:47 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-06-22 22:52 ` Dave Jones
2005-06-23 0:14 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-06-25 3:33 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-06-25 17:29 ` Dave Jones
2005-06-22 23:09 ` Greg KH
2005-06-22 23:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-06-23 0:05 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-06-23 0:29 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-06-23 1:47 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-06-23 1:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-06-23 2:16 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-06-23 2:39 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-06-23 3:06 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-06-23 3:24 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-06-23 5:16 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-06-23 5:58 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-06-23 6:20 ` Greg KH
2005-06-23 6:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-06-23 7:11 ` Greg KH
2005-06-23 7:03 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-06-23 7:38 ` Petr Baudis
2005-06-23 8:18 ` Martin Langhoff
2005-06-23 8:30 ` Vojtech Pavlik [this message]
2005-06-23 14:31 ` Horst von Brand
2005-06-22 23:16 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-06-23 0:15 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-06-23 1:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-06-23 7:06 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-06-23 15:29 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-06-23 0:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-06-23 2:04 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-06-23 2:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-06-23 3:52 ` Adam Kropelin
2005-06-23 4:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-06-23 5:35 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-06-23 6:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-06-23 6:07 ` Miles Bader
2005-06-23 7:15 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-06-23 16:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-06-23 8:01 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2005-06-23 4:23 ` Daniel Barkalow
2005-06-23 12:25 ` Dave Airlie
2005-06-23 23:56 ` Mercurial vs " Matt Mackall
2005-06-24 6:41 ` Petr Baudis
2005-06-24 12:38 ` Christopher Li
2005-06-28 15:00 ` Petr Baudis
2005-06-28 15:10 ` Andrew Thompson
2005-06-28 15:35 ` Petr Baudis
2005-06-28 21:54 ` Horst von Brand
2005-06-28 18:47 ` Christopher Li
2005-06-29 0:12 ` Kyle Moffett
2005-06-28 18:01 ` Matt Mackall
2005-06-28 20:27 ` Kyle Moffett
2005-06-28 20:45 ` Sean
2005-06-28 22:14 ` Matt Mackall
2005-06-28 22:23 ` Sean
2005-06-28 22:47 ` Kyle Moffett
2005-06-28 22:49 ` Matt Mackall
2005-06-28 22:59 ` Sean
2005-06-28 23:25 ` Kyle Moffett
2005-06-28 23:37 ` Sean
2005-06-29 0:08 ` Kyle Moffett
2005-06-29 0:25 ` Sean
2005-06-29 3:53 ` Kyle Moffett
2005-06-29 10:27 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2005-06-28 23:29 ` Matt Mackall
2005-06-29 6:32 ` Thomas Arendsen Hein
2005-06-24 13:06 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-06-24 13:39 ` Theodore Ts'o
2005-06-24 13:46 ` Paolo Ciarrocchi
2005-06-24 12:19 ` Christopher Li
2005-06-24 13:57 ` Kevin Smith
2005-06-24 18:03 ` Matt Mackall
2005-06-28 15:07 ` Petr Baudis
2005-06-28 15:15 ` Sven Verdoolaege
2005-06-28 15:34 ` Petr Baudis
2005-06-28 16:50 ` Cygwin and Native MS Windows (was: Mercurial vs Updated git HOWTO for kernel hackers) Kevin Smith
2005-06-28 16:51 ` Cogito vs. Git " Kevin Smith
2005-06-28 20:54 ` Petr Baudis
2005-06-24 13:16 ` Mercurial vs Updated git HOWTO for kernel hackers Matthias Urlichs
2005-06-24 19:00 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-06-24 19:25 ` John W. Linville
2005-06-24 22:38 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-06-24 21:11 ` Daniel Barkalow
2005-06-24 22:08 ` Should "git-read-tree -m -u" delete files? Junio C Hamano
2005-06-24 22:45 ` Mercurial vs Updated git HOWTO for kernel hackers Joel Becker
2005-06-24 23:08 ` Kyle Moffett
2005-06-27 18:31 ` Pavel Machek
2005-06-27 19:05 ` Kyle Moffett
2005-06-27 19:40 ` Matt Mackall
2005-06-27 19:51 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2005-06-27 20:51 ` Matt Mackall
2005-06-27 21:53 ` Ed Tomlinson
2005-07-08 15:18 ` Amin Azez
2005-07-11 8:56 ` Amin Azez
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