Questions tagged [tagging]
Tagging is the act of marking a specific revision in source control with an identifier for future reference.
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How to ensure that release tags are uniformly created throughout a cohort of closely-related Git repositories?
Working as part of the release team for a sprawling open source project that uses dozens of Git repositories, I regularly run into situations where one or more of the satellite repositories are ...
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Should tags be introduced on commits still in Pull Request branches outside of main/master branch?
Context: I am working on a project in which people use tags on commits yet in branches waiting on the Pull Requests queue of GitHub. This means they are non-merged to the main branch yet. The problem ...
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Best GIT approach to educational project
I am working on a course design and I'm preparing the project that the students will have to work on all along the course. Each student will create a GIT repository a the beginning of the course and ...
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using git, bringing old tagged releases up to date
I have a git repository with a long history. Releases were tagged along the master branch over time. If a user wants to go back and check out an old tagged release, they do not have the advantage of ...
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What is the better search system, user defined tags or pre defined attribute fields?
I'm developing a marketplace application that will eventually list a large number of different types of items. Currently our search system (powered by Algolia) is built on pre defined attribute ...
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Divergent Bodies of Truth, Relationships of Concepts
A recent endeavor of mine requires asking users how related two concepts are. Example: Kiwi and Fruit. Identical? Fairly Similar? Rather different? Unrelated? It occurs to me that for certain ...
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Can tags have values?
I'm designing a system where items can have tags, which is easy enough. The problem is we also need items to have arbitrary attributes. For example, an item could have an attribute called "Length" ...
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In git, how to do versioning for a dozen libraries all worked at in parallel
We are doing projects, but we reuse a lot of code between the projects and have lots of libraries that contain our common code. As we implement new projects we find more ways to factor out common code ...
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