Re: [glob2-devel] no tags in hg since 0.8.21

[Kieran P]

Mercurial still has tags, but rather than branching (like you suggested as a substitute) or copying that revision to a tags folder like CVS used to do, it copies the specific revisions to a tags file I believe.

From Mercurial Website:
"A Mercurial Tag is just a symbolic name for a ChangeSet.  See 
Tag for a little more discussion."

So it takes the revision number (or in mercurials case hash string?), and puts it into a file, so you should be able to call -r alpha23 without it being a branch (so years from now, you dont need to dig through branches, revisions etc, it links right to the old revisions that was tagged alpha23).

If understood it correctly (and it works this way) then its quite a handy feature and we should keep tagging when releases are made, particularly from beta 1 onwards.

Regards
Kieran

On 8/13/07, Bradley Arsenault <address@hidden> wrote:

On 8/12/07, Leo Wandersleb <address@hidden> wrote:

hi

in the mercurial there are no tags for the most recent releases :/

Leo Wandersleb

Since Alpha 23 we switched to  mercurial. There should have been CVS tag for Alpha 23, Anyhow, we now use branches as a substitute for tags, although we can do both if its desired.