Re: linux-2.6.21-gitN - versioning question

[David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>]

On Sat, 2007-05-12 at 17:01 +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On May 12 2007 21:44, David Woodhouse wrote:
> >On Sat, 2007-05-12 at 17:19 +0400, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> >> Actually I think it would be convenient if such tags (like
> >> v.2.6.21-git16) were in Linus' git tree too.
> >
> >Then there would be _lots_ of tags in the master tree -- I'm not sure we
> >want that.
> >
> >I suppose I could put a tree on kernel.org which _does_ have the tags,
> >and which precisely matches Linus' tree in every other way... but then
> >again, you could do that too by just rsyncing the tags yourself :)
> 
> Are you saying GIT tags are expensive, compared to, say, SVN tags?

I wasn't saying that -- I've no idea how expensive SVN tags are. But I
was of the opinion that GIT tags aren't free -- I thought I'd seen
git-pull explicitly checking (with one round-trip latency) that it has
the corresponding commit for every tag it knows about.

-- 
dwmw2

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