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Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 19:13:36 +0530
From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
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On Wed, 22 Oct 2014 00:00:58 -0700
Matthew Hall <mhall@mhcomputing.net> wrote:

> What I think git in general and DPDK in particular are missing is, they have a 
> tradition tags for releases, however I think this is broken because you can't 
> easily append more stuff to tages.

In git tags and branches are almost the same thing.
You can easily create a local branch off of a tag.