feedback on v 0.6b

[Matt Mackall]

On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 02:27:36PM +0200, Mathieu Lacage wrote:
> hi,
> 
> Being close to start a new project, I thought it was time for me to see
> if I could go shopping for a new SCM. So far, mercurial seems to be
> doing pretty much what I need so I will try to setup a real server to
> use it soon. Thanks for this nice piece of software. 
> 
> However, here are a few things I found out about mercurial using while
> using it for 1h.
> 
> 1) history
> "hg -v history" does the same thing as "hg history -v"
> I would much prefer the former to be rejected.

-v is a global option and originally was only allowed in the former
position like CVS. We may remove the former eventually.

> 2) tagging
> "hg tag existing-tag" seems to succeed and replace the previous tag with
> the same name. It might make sense to report an error to the user.

Changing tags is explicitly allowed. And you can always revert the
.hgtags file if you make a mistake.
 
> 3) if you try to use v0.6b on a repository created with v0.6, most
> operations are really really slow. I settled for doing a clone of my
> previous v0.6 repository with hg v0.6b and then wiping out the v0.6
> repository and replacing it with the cloned version.

???

That's very unexpected. Nothing has changed file format-wise between
the two.

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