On Thu, 2 Nov 2023 at 10:23, Andreas Schwab wrote: > > On Nov 02 2023, Jonathan Wakely wrote: > > > Git tags are cheap, but I can imagine a concern about hundreds of new > > tags "littering" the output of 'git tag -l'. I don't _think_ you can > > put tags under an alternative ref that isn't fetched by default (as we > > do with refs/users and refs/vendor). I think tags have to go under > > refs/tags. But grep -v could be used to filter out snapshot tags > > easily. > > There is no inherent limitation on publishing tags outside of refs/tags, > to make them invisible by git tag. There are already existing examples > of tags residing under various refs/users and refs/vendors namespaces.
Ah, good to know, thanks. So then there's no reason that snapshots would have to clutter up the list of default tags for anybody who isn't interested in them.
