On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 3:22 PM, Paul Sokolovsky <paul.sokolovsky@linaro.org> wrote:
It's not enough if you still want to refer to it via SHA, due to repo
peculiarities. It should be also reachable from one of the live
branches (so, instead of a tag, a branch can be created right away).

Paul, what happened to the repo patch we had that would also fetch tags? was that ever submit this to gerrit? on the mailing list we didn't receive any resistance to fix this. If its an easy landing upstream I would prefer that over adding "create branch for everything" policy.

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 - Alexander