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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: Jonathan Wakely <jwakely@redhat.com>
Cc: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>,  gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] maintainer-scripts/gcc_release: create index between snapshots <-> commits
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2023 11:18:23 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r0l81ms0.fsf@igel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZUNm5daU17l/9Qvp@redhat.com> (Jonathan Wakely's message of "Thu, 2 Nov 2023 09:07:49 +0000")

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.

-- 
Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org
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  reply	other threads:[~2023-11-02 10:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-11-02  8:39 [PATCH 1/4] contrib: add generate_snapshot_index.py Sam James
2023-11-02  8:39 ` [PATCH 2/4] maintainer-scripts/gcc_release: create index between snapshots <-> commits Sam James
2023-11-02  9:07   ` Jonathan Wakely
2023-11-02 10:18     ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2023-11-02 10:25       ` Jonathan Wakely
2023-11-02 22:18         ` rep.dot.nop
2023-11-02  8:39 ` [PATCH 3/4] maintainer-scripts/gcc_release: use HTTPS for links Sam James
2023-11-02 18:59   ` Joseph Myers
2023-11-02  8:39 ` [PATCH 4/4] maintainer-scripts/gcc_release: cleanup whitespace Sam James
2023-11-02 19:00   ` Joseph Myers
2023-11-10 23:35     ` Sam James
2023-11-14  0:21       ` Joseph Myers

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