Re: [Denemo-devel] Release 1.1

[Richard Shann]

On Thu, 2013-11-21 at 09:03 -0600, Jeremiah Benham wrote:
> I am thinking this because it does not seem possible to commit and
> push to a tag like you can branches. You can only updated where the
> tag points in git masters history. Correct?

>From what Eloi said in response to a similar notion I put to him, this
is not the correct model. A git tag is a thing that points
simultaneously to a number of commits (e.g. all the ones up to a certain
point on the master branch plus a few others).

I trust the maintainer page gives the incantations for adding a commit
to the bunch that a tag refers to etc.

Below is the bit of the email in which I suggested this model of what a
tag is:
> Instead 
> "You can see a tag like a token that you put on commits you want."
> implies that it is a name for the tree resulting from a set of commits
> applied in the order they happened.
> 

Richard