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From: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [1.8.0] Provide proper remote ref namespaces
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 20:46:52 +0100
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Heya,

On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 20:06, Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net> wrote:
> Let's take the OpenOffice vs LibreOffice as an example. =C2=A0What if=
 I want
> both in my repository so I can easily perform diffs between those
> independent branches? =C2=A0They may certainly end up producing relea=
ses with
> the same version numbers (same tag name) but different content
> (different tag references).

I think this concrete example of a very valid use case shows that we
should (in some way or form) implement this :).

--=20
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier