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Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: How to remove tag from revision
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jack-monotone |
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Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: How to remove tag from revision |
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Mon, 4 Feb 2008 22:13:44 -0800 |
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On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 02:08:08PM +1100, Brian May wrote:
> Bruce> (Mercurial's scheme is the neatest for this, I think: tags are
> stored
> Bruce> in a versioned file, so it can conflict in the normal way. But
> even
> Bruce> that has complications, IIRC.)
> What complications does it have?
The tags are in-band (the .hgtags file), so creating a tag creates a new
revision.
Also, the algorithm mercurial uses to determine the version of the .hgtags file
is not transparent.
--Jack
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