Stamps

[Steve Losh]

On 05/09/11 at 12:48P, Kevin Bullock wrote:
> On May 9, 2011, at 12:35 PM, Kevin Bullock wrote:
> 
> > On May 7, 2011, at 6:52 PM, Adrian Buehlmann wrote:
> > 
> >> veracity [1] has the concept of "stamps". A stamp is like a tag (a name)
> >> that can be applied to changesets. But a stamp differs from a tag
> >> because the same stamp can be applied to *multiple* changesets.
> >> 
> >> Example usage: "passes test", "behavior change", "pending review"
> > 
> > How is this different from (a) named branches, and (b) bookmarks when used as described in issue2788?
> > 
> > For reference, here's the 4(!) types of labels we currently have (cribbed from mpm's notes on issue2788):
> 
> Actually let's extend that with a column that indicates whether a label can apply to multiple commits or not:
> 
> name      stored   mutable  auditable  sharable  auto-updating  multiple
> tags      .hgtags  yes      yes        yes       no             no
> localtags .hg      yes      no         no        no             no
> branches  commit   no       yes        yes       no             yes
> bookmarks .hg      yes      no         yes       if-current     no
> 
> ...the extra column bringing the number of possible combinations to *20*.

Correct, and stamps would fit in like so:

name      stored   mutable  auditable  sharable  auto-updating  multiple
tags      .hgtags  yes      yes        yes       no             no
localtags .hg      yes      no         no        no             no
branches  commit   no       yes        yes       no             yes
bookmarks .hg      yes      no         yes       if-current     no
stamps    ?        yes      ?          yes       no             yes

-- 
Steve Losh