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

On Friday, 02 February 2007 at 19:19, Jakub Narebski wrote:

Brendan Cully wrote:

quoted

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

quoted

The mistake seems to be to think that tags get "versioned", and are part 
of the tree history. That's insane. It means that you can never have a tag 
to a newer tree than the one you are on.

The tags you use can simply be those from the tip of the repository,
regardless of which revision you've currently checked out.

_Can_ be or _are_ (in Mercurial)? Besides, there can be more than one

are. The meaning of tags depends on the repository, not the "index".

tip of repository (branch are tips of history), and making set of tags
dependent on which branch you are on is not a good idea either.

agreed.