Best practices for tagging on branches

[Dirkjan Ochtman]

On 25/04/2009 01:35, L. David Baron wrote:
> The current procedure Mozilla uses for this is essentially:
>    hg branch release-branch-name
>    [ modify version number and commit change to branch ]
>    hg tag release-name
>    hg ci -m"Tagged release-name."

So why not trivial-merge that release-branch with the tag on it? (That 
is, hg up default; hg merge release-branch-name; hg rv -rdefault -a; hg ci.)

Cheers,

Dirkjan