From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Subject: Re: Tags Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2005 07:04:51 -0600 Message-ID: References: <42C454B2.6090307@zytor.com> <42C462CD.9010909@zytor.com> <42C46B86.8070006@zytor.com> <42C5714A.1020203@zytor.com> <42C5C75F.4040100@zytor.com> <42C5DA77.4030107@zytor.com> <42C6D318.8050108@zytor.com> <42C6D5AD.9070304@zytor.com> <42C7043C.9080904@zytor.com> <42C70A5B.9070606@zytor.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , Daniel Barkalow , Git Mailing List , Junio C Hamano , ftpadmin@kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Jul 05 15:06:57 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dpn8P-000143-Aw for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 05 Jul 2005 15:06:45 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261823AbVGENG1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Jul 2005 09:06:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261844AbVGENG1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Jul 2005 09:06:27 -0400 Received: from ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com ([166.70.28.69]:16098 "EHLO ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261823AbVGENGO (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Jul 2005 09:06:14 -0400 Received: from ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com (8.13.4/8.13.4/Debian-3) with ESMTP id j65D4t40014356; Tue, 5 Jul 2005 07:04:55 -0600 Received: (from eric@localhost) by ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id j65D4qYp014247; Tue, 5 Jul 2005 07:04:52 -0600 X-Authentication-Warning: ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com: eric set sender to ebiederm@xmission.com using -f To: Linus Torvalds In-Reply-To: (Linus Torvalds's message of "Sat, 2 Jul 2005 15:17:07 -0700 (PDT)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Linus Torvalds 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