On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 1:15 PM, Johannes Sixt <j6t@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Tags are refs, just like branches. "Tags don't move" is just a > convention, and git doesn't even respect it (except possibly in one > place[1]). You can't reseat tags unless you use -f, which is exactly the > same with branches, which you can't reseat unless you use -f. > > [1] By default, git fetch does not fetch tags that it already has. Also, git checkout <tag> puts you on a detached HEAD. This seems pretty significant with regard to Git respecting a "tags don't move" convention. Chris Rorvick -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html