Re: Jabber, question on push,pull and --tags, and no help but jabber

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On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 5:31 PM, Michael J Gruber
<git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Steffen Daode Nurpmeso venit, vidit, dixit 06.06.2011 15:02:
>> Hello GIT,
>> Â Â first paragraph is reserved for praising your existence.
>> Â Â 'Used cvs(1) for long years in small team projects with local
>> Â Â private repos and never felt the need for anything else. Â2011
>> Â Â is different. ÂI first tried you but failed resoundingly. ÂDue
>> Â Â to vim(1) and mutt(1) i discovered hg(1) and i still love it's
>> Â Â simple usage. Â'Talking about the front-end anyway. ÂIt's huge
>> Â Â memory consumption and slow performance forbids it's usage on
>> Â Â our old PCs (e.g. Cyrix 166+) though. ÂSo i came back and
>> Â Â found you still receptive! ÂAnd the more i work, the less
>> Â Â i hurt, the greater the knowledge, the smoother the
>> Â Â interaction. ÂAre you the final word on RC in the end?
>>
>> I stumbled over one thing i don't understand, because it seems
>> illogical: why do i need to use --tags to force pushing of tags?
>> Because there is even a config option for the latter, i suspect
>> this is because of intention. ÂIt would be nice to get some
>> information on the background of that, like a link to yet existing
>> documentation. ÂAnyway i was a bit astonished to look at some
>
> Tags may contain private information. Say you pull some changes from
> your head of group, find a strange commit you want to look at later and
> tag it with "what-is-this-crap"...
>
> More seriously, tags are not part of the "remotes layout", so when you
> push them and others pull them they overwrite their tags if there's a
> name clash.

Until tag namespaces are merged.

-- 
Felipe Contreras
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