git@vger.kernel.org mailing list mirror (one of many)
 help / color / mirror / code / Atom feed
From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>,
	Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>,
	ftpadmin@kernel.org
Subject: Re: Tags
Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2005 07:04:51 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1vf3p2yks.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0507021501450.8247@g5.osdl.org> (Linus Torvalds's message of "Sat, 2 Jul 2005 15:17:07 -0700 (PDT)")

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:

> (And you might also change tag contents occasionally. One reason might be
> a bug and you decide to re-tag something else. But a more common reason
> might be because you want to have tags like "latest" that don't actually
> update with development, but they update with some other event, like a
> release event or some automated test cycle completion or something like
> that. So tags aren't _immutable_ even from an expectation standpoint, 
> it's just that they tend to change _less_).

Could you include the person who generated the tag and the time the
tag was generated in the tag object?

For a tag like "latest" it would help quite a bit if you could actually
find out which was the latest version of it :)

Eric

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-07-05 13:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 86+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-06-30 17:54 "git-send-pack" Linus Torvalds
2005-06-30 18:24 ` "git-send-pack" A Large Angry SCM
2005-06-30 18:27   ` "git-send-pack" A Large Angry SCM
2005-06-30 19:04   ` "git-send-pack" Linus Torvalds
2005-06-30 18:45 ` "git-send-pack" Jan Harkes
2005-06-30 19:01 ` "git-send-pack" Mike Taht
2005-06-30 19:42   ` "git-send-pack" Linus Torvalds
2005-07-01  9:50     ` "git-send-pack" Matthias Urlichs
2005-06-30 19:44 ` "git-send-pack" Linus Torvalds
2005-06-30 20:38   ` "git-send-pack" Junio C Hamano
2005-06-30 21:05     ` "git-send-pack" Daniel Barkalow
2005-06-30 21:29       ` "git-send-pack" Linus Torvalds
2005-06-30 21:55         ` "git-send-pack" H. Peter Anvin
2005-06-30 22:26           ` "git-send-pack" Linus Torvalds
2005-06-30 23:40             ` "git-send-pack" H. Peter Anvin
2005-07-01  0:02               ` "git-send-pack" Linus Torvalds
2005-07-01  1:24                 ` "git-send-pack" H. Peter Anvin
2005-07-01 23:44                 ` "git-send-pack" Mike Taht
2005-07-02  0:07                   ` "git-send-pack" H. Peter Anvin
2005-07-02  1:56                   ` "git-send-pack" Linus Torvalds
2005-07-02  4:08                     ` "git-send-pack" H. Peter Anvin
2005-07-02  4:22                       ` "git-send-pack" Linus Torvalds
2005-07-02  4:29                         ` "git-send-pack" H. Peter Anvin
2005-07-02 17:16                           ` "git-send-pack" Linus Torvalds
2005-07-02 17:37                             ` "git-send-pack" H. Peter Anvin
2005-07-02 17:44                             ` "git-send-pack" Tony Luck
2005-07-02 17:48                               ` "git-send-pack" H. Peter Anvin
2005-07-02 18:12                                 ` "git-send-pack" A Large Angry SCM
2005-06-30 22:25         ` "git-send-pack" Daniel Barkalow
2005-06-30 23:56           ` "git-send-pack" Linus Torvalds
2005-07-01  5:01             ` "git-send-pack" Daniel Barkalow
2005-06-30 21:08     ` "git-send-pack" Linus Torvalds
2005-06-30 21:10     ` "git-send-pack" Dan Holmsand
2005-06-30 19:49 ` "git-send-pack" Daniel Barkalow
2005-06-30 20:12   ` "git-send-pack" Linus Torvalds
2005-06-30 20:23     ` "git-send-pack" H. Peter Anvin
2005-06-30 20:52       ` "git-send-pack" Linus Torvalds
2005-06-30 21:23         ` "git-send-pack" H. Peter Anvin
2005-06-30 21:26           ` "git-send-pack" H. Peter Anvin
2005-06-30 21:42           ` "git-send-pack" Linus Torvalds
2005-06-30 22:00             ` "git-send-pack" H. Peter Anvin
2005-07-01 10:31               ` "git-send-pack" Matthias Urlichs
2005-07-01 14:43                 ` "git-send-pack" Jan Harkes
2005-07-01 13:56               ` Tags Eric W. Biederman
2005-07-01 16:37                 ` Tags H. Peter Anvin
2005-07-01 22:38                   ` Tags Eric W. Biederman
2005-07-01 22:44                     ` Tags H. Peter Anvin
2005-07-01 23:07                       ` Tags Eric W. Biederman
2005-07-01 23:22                         ` Tags Daniel Barkalow
2005-07-02  0:06                         ` Tags H. Peter Anvin
2005-07-02  7:00                           ` Tags Eric W. Biederman
2005-07-02 17:47                             ` Tags H. Peter Anvin
2005-07-02 17:54                               ` Tags Eric W. Biederman
2005-07-02 17:58                                 ` Tags H. Peter Anvin
2005-07-02 18:31                                   ` Tags Eric W. Biederman
2005-07-02 19:55                                     ` Tags Matthias Urlichs
2005-07-02 21:16                                     ` Tags H. Peter Anvin
2005-07-02 21:39                                       ` Tags Linus Torvalds
2005-07-02 21:42                                         ` Tags H. Peter Anvin
2005-07-02 22:02                                           ` Tags A Large Angry SCM
2005-07-02 22:20                                             ` Tags Linus Torvalds
2005-07-02 23:49                                               ` Tags A Large Angry SCM
2005-07-03  0:17                                                 ` Tags Linus Torvalds
2005-07-02 22:14                                           ` Tags Petr Baudis
2005-07-02 22:17                                           ` Tags Linus Torvalds
2005-07-03  0:04                                             ` Tags Dan Holmsand
2005-07-03 22:34                                               ` Tags Kevin Smith
2005-07-05 13:04                                             ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2005-07-05 16:21                                               ` Tags Daniel Barkalow
2005-07-05 17:51                                                 ` Tags Eric W. Biederman
2005-07-05 18:33                                                   ` Tags Linus Torvalds
2005-07-05 19:22                                                     ` Tags Junio C Hamano
2005-07-06 18:04                                                       ` Tags Matthias Urlichs
2005-07-07  3:31                                                     ` Tags Eric W. Biederman
2005-07-02 18:45                                   ` Tags Linus Torvalds
2005-07-02 20:38                           ` Tags Jan Harkes
2005-07-02 22:32                             ` Tags Jan Harkes
2005-07-02 16:00                       ` Tags Matthias Urlichs
2005-07-01 18:09                 ` Tags Petr Baudis
2005-07-01 18:37                   ` Tags H. Peter Anvin
2005-07-01 21:20                     ` Tags Matthias Urlichs
2005-07-01 21:42                     ` Tags Petr Baudis
2005-07-01 21:52                       ` Tags H. Peter Anvin
2005-07-01 22:27                         ` Tags Daniel Barkalow
2005-07-01 22:59                         ` Tags Petr Baudis
2005-06-30 20:49     ` "git-send-pack" Daniel Barkalow

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

  List information: http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=m1vf3p2yks.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com \
    --to=ebiederm@xmission.com \
    --cc=barkalow@iabervon.org \
    --cc=ftpadmin@kernel.org \
    --cc=git@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=hpa@zytor.com \
    --cc=junkio@cox.net \
    --cc=torvalds@osdl.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox

	https://80x24.org/mirrors/git.git

This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).