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

[Jakub Narebski]

Brendan Cully wrote:

> Just because a tag is created at a different time than the revision it
> tags, that doesn't mean that it is ahistorical. It's still interesting
> to know what the state of the repository was when the tag was
> created.

I think not. Why would one want to know what was the state of the 
repository when the tag (perhaps to some historical, old commit)
was created?

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Jakub Narebski
Poland