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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: git-pull and tag objects
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Hi,

[*SIGH* I am Cc'ing Linus, since you -- again -- forgot that]

On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, Jakub Narebski wrote:

> Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> > One thing that _might_ be a good idea for tags (if people _really_ 
> > want to actually update tags under the same name) is to have a 
> > "parent" pointer for tag objects, the same way we have for commits. 
> > That way you could - if you really wanted to - create a chain of tags, 
> > and show the history of them.
> 
> Wouldn't it be better to just use reflog for given tag? That assuming of 
> course that we could protect tag reflog from pruning...

No. Reflogs are a local thing, tags not necessarily. And much fun 
"pushing" a reflog to another repo.

Ciao,
Dscho