renaming tags

TK Soh teekaysoh at gmail.com
Fri Dec 29 14:42:10 CST 2006


On 12/29/06, Benoit Boissinot <bboissin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/29/06, TK Soh <teekaysoh at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 12/29/06, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida at ceid.upatras.gr> wrote:
> > > On 2006-12-29 13:44, TK Soh <teekaysoh at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Is it possible rename/remove tags? I tried editing .hgtags, but the
> > > > original tags still show up in 'hg tags'.
> > >
> > > Did you commit the .hgtags file though?  The .hgtags file that is
> > > present in the workspace may have local diffs, but once you commit
> > > the changes, the "hg tags" command will reflect the removal of the
> > > tags you edited.
> >
> > Yes, I did commit .hgtags.
>
> And you need to change it in all the heads.

Yup, this is it. I did not realize the repo has two heads. After
merging, the old tag names are gone. It might be good if Hg can
somehow detect amd issue a warning on this.


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