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

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2007-02-02 09:59, Brendan Cully <brendan at kublai.com> wrote:
>On Friday, 02 February 2007 at 08:42, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>> Tags are *independent* of history. They must be. They are "outside"
>> history, since the whole point of tags are to point to history.
>
> Tags have history too. They are added at particular times by
> particular people, and sometimes changed (this wouldn't happen in an
> ideal world, but it happens). It's a shame not to be able to find this
> history.

Agreed.  There is a _reason_ behind the -f option of 'cvs tag'.

Sometimes, 'sliding a tag' is a real-world need.  Losing the information
of who did the tag sliding and when, is not good.