On 2007-02-02 09:59, Brendan Cully <brendan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >On Friday, 02 February 2007 at 08:42, Linus Torvalds wrote: >> Tags are *independent* of history. They must be. They are "outside" >> history, since the whole point of tags are to point to history. > > Tags have history too. They are added at particular times by > particular people, and sometimes changed (this wouldn't happen in an > ideal world, but it happens). It's a shame not to be able to find this > history. Agreed. There is a _reason_ behind the -f option of 'cvs tag'. Sometimes, 'sliding a tag' is a real-world need. Losing the information of who did the tag sliding and when, is not good. - 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