clone by tag, but tag doesn't appear in the clone

[Paul J. Morris]

Hi Issac,


I thought this may be the case.  Bit of a nuisance, currently looking at
moving from CVS.  Our build process uses checkout by tag, so the build
process knows what it's tag is.

thanks,
Paul Morris



Isaac Jurado wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 5:47 AM, Paul J. Morris
> <paul.morris at solnetsolutions.co.nz> wrote:
>>
>> I'm cloning a repository by a specific tag, yet in the cloned
>> repository "hg tags" doesn't list the tag that the repository was
>> cloned from.
> 
> This is a Mercurial design issue (personally, is the only thing I really
> hate about it).
> 
> Tags are "archived" as a later revisions.  Therefore, if you only clone
> until the tag, the tag itself is not propagated as the revision that
> stores the tag in .hgtags is AFTER the revision referenced by the tag.
> 
> I hope I didn't mess the explanation up.
> 
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