On 28 Oct 2012, at 00:18, David Cantrell wrote: > I needed to do a quick update to Number::Phone 2.0. But master in my git > repo is currently full of unfinished work. > > I love git, because it was just so damned easy to checkout the > release-2.0 tag, create a branch off that, patch, release, tag (with > release-2.0001), and merge the changes back into master. Doing all of > that in CVS doesn't bear thinking about, and doing it in svn, while > possible, would have required at least a little bit of thought, and I'm > not good at thinking this late in the day. > > Now, my question - can I delete the branch, while still leaving the tag > in place?
Yes, happily. Tags and branches are both just symlinks to commits. Its just convention (that is enforced a bit by git) that tags don't change where branches do. -a