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

Brendan Cully wrote:

Just because a tag is created at a different time than the revision it
tags, that doesn't mean that it is ahistorical. It's still interesting
to know what the state of the repository was when the tag was
created.

I think not. Why would one want to know what was the state of the 
repository when the tag (perhaps to some historical, old commit)
was created?

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Jakub Narebski
Poland