Branch and tag name conflict
wbyoung at fadingred.com
wbyoung at fadingred.com
Thu Apr 15 18:36:47 CDT 2010
Today I ran into an issue with Mercurial. I created a tag that used a
name that was already taken by a branch. There were no errors in
doing so or in committing. I ran into problems when trying to merge
that branch into the default branch (I assume because it was trying to
merge from the tag).
I've recovered from the problem by renaming the branch, but I think it
would be nice if Mercurial had stopped me from creating the tag since
the name was already taken by a branch.
Is this an issue that anyone else has experienced? Is there a way to
refer to a branch in the 'hg merge' command that differentiates it
from a tag? Would name conflicts also be an issue with local
branches?
Whitney Young
FadingRed
wbyoung at fadingred.com
www.fadingred.com
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