Daniel Barkalow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 5 Jul 2005, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > >> Could you include the person who generated the tag and the time the >> tag was generated in the tag object? >> >> For a tag like "latest" it would help quite a bit if you could actually >> find out which was the latest version of it :) > > The fact that lots of tags get refs named with their contents is just due > to tags only getting used for a small portion of their possible uses. This > only happens when the feature you'd look something up under is a feature > which is persistent.
True but if you can you will get multiple tags with the same suggested name. So you need so way to find the one you care about. Either a date or it's position in the tree, are all you have to go on. I picked on latest as that is an extreme example that had already been mentioned. Eric - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
