Tags in forests. My solution(s).

Roman Kennke roman.kennke at aicas.com
Fri Jun 6 09:51:19 CDT 2008


Hi there,

after a longish oddysee to find a way to implement tagging with forests,
I found a solution that works fine for me and is straightforward (I just
wish somebody would have put my nose on that earlier). I wrote a small
blog post on that:

http://kennke.org/blog/2008/06/06/tags-with-mercurial-and-forests/

To make it short, my solution is to implement tags just like branches:
As simple (f)clones. To be honest, I think the hg tag command is not
very useful and seems like something that doesn't really fit. It should
probably be an extension, not a core command. At least, using clones
feels much more natural to HG and avoids many problems that I had with
hg tag. I think that this approach should be recommended over hg tag, or
do you generally disagree with that?

Cheers, Roman

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