Tags in forests. My solution(s).

[Doug Philips]

On Friday, June 06, 2008, at 01:36PM, "Roman Kennke" indited:
>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?

I'm a little bit curious about this, and in particular curious about the pitfalls of using snapshots.
It seems that you've come to a conclusion that in order to tag a forest you have a tag tree of fclone'd forests?
Doesn't that mean  you have a centralized single location for tags? I liked the snapshots idea because then the "tags" were as distributable as anything else. Perhaps I'm missing something? Could you explain the snapshots issues in more details?

Thanks,
   --Doug