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

[Jakub Narebski]

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 2 Feb 2007, Jakub Narebski wrote:
>> 
>> Gaaah. Why anyone would want to have non-propagated tags?
> 
> That's *definitely* not the mistake.

Ermmm... right. Now that I thought about it a bit...

> I use private tags (and branches, for that matter) all the time. I'd be 
> very upset indeed if all my tags were always pushed out when I push 
> something out.

Well, in git you can have private tags (anything not under refs/tags
or under refs/heads is by default private), but I think you can only
have not published branches (which are not pushed to public repository).
If it is not true, then how one can have private branches 
(i.e. branches which 'push --all' would not push)?

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Jakub Narebski
Poland