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Could this be used instead of tags as a CI build marker? Using automated tagging of every CI build quickly adds up to thousands of tags polluting tag lists and making git slower.



I assume you'd loose the ability to work with them as tags though?

git checkout v0123

git difftool v0123 v0158

are quite useful. Didn't know it had a performance impact.


Good point. Might still be worth it though. When fetching all tags it becomes ridiculous after just a few thousand builds.


I'm only up to about 2000 but I haven't really seen slowdowns or other issues.


Maybe it’s because of some setting that always fetches tags? Just writing the branches to the console on fetch seems to take a while.




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