Re: newbie questions about git design and features (some wrt hg)

On 2007-02-02 09:59, Brendan Cully [off-list ref] wrote:

On Friday, 02 February 2007 at 08:42, Linus Torvalds wrote:

quoted

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.