Automatic tagging

[Ralf Schmitt]

On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 1:15 PM, Roman Kennke <roman.kennke at aicas.com> wrote:

> One thing I don't understand is why tagging and the .hgtags file are
> versioned and create a commit at all? In my understanding, tags are
> meta-information of a repository, not versioned data. I mean, when I do
> hg update 1, I can still do hg update much-later-tag. Why is it
> necessary to create a changeset when creating a commit? This shouldn't
> be necessary if I understand correctly. And more importantly, it
> shouldn't be necessary to merge anything when pushing a tag. And even
> more importantly, it should never be necessary to merge .hgtags
> _manually_ when pushing the tag. It is not a good idea to let the user
> fiddle with internal metadata in this way. I see that .hgtags is a


two people tagging different revisions with the same name?
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