Re: [PATCH 2/4] maintainer-scripts/gcc_release: create index between snapshots <-> commits

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On 2 November 2023 11:25:47 CET, Jonathan Wakely <jwakely@redhat.com> wrote:
>On Thu, 2 Nov 2023 at 10:23, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>>
>> On Nov 02 2023, Jonathan Wakely wrote:
>>
>> > Git tags are cheap, but I can imagine a concern about hundreds of new
>> > tags "littering" the output of 'git tag -l'. I don't _think_ you can
>> > put tags under an alternative ref that isn't fetched by default (as we
>> > do with refs/users and refs/vendor). I think tags have to go under
>> > refs/tags. But grep -v could be used to filter out snapshot tags
>> > easily.
>>
>> There is no inherent limitation on publishing tags outside of refs/tags,
>> to make them invisible by git tag.  There are already existing examples
>> of tags residing under various refs/users and refs/vendors namespaces.
>
>
>Ah, good to know, thanks.
>
>So then there's no reason that snapshots would have to clutter up the
>list of default tags for anybody who isn't interested in them.
>

Thanks Andreas. Exactly. So, just to emphasise the obvious:
Let's please use refs/snapshot ?