On Mon, Jun 01, 2015 at 02:18:01PM -0400, Greg Reagle wrote: > On Mon, Jun 1, 2015, at 01:46 PM, Jack L. Frost wrote: > > As a packager, I'd very much appreciate tagging once in a while so that > > we have > > static targets for patching and packaging. > > I don't know git well, just the basics, but why don't you use a git > commit id as the target for patching and packaging? As far as I > understand, a tag is just a "friendly" name for a commit id anyway.
This is what actually is happening recently in several distributions, but it has drawbacks.
