Where should we put our tags?

[Benoit Boissinot]

On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 5:32 PM, wol <simonh at symbian.org> wrote:
>
> Hi

Hello Simon,

>
> I'm working with Symbian (symbian.org) in the Integration team. We're using
> Mercurial on a large scale, though we've not been going tha long, and we're
> very generally happy with it.
>
Glad to hear it!

[snip]

> We're wondering whether going forward it would be a better idea to separate
> all our tagging changesets from our tagged changesets, and put them all on
> one branch (called "tags" for want of anything more exciting).
>
> Where it's not too late, the first revision on the tags branch would be a
> child of the null changeset, so we'd keep our tag meta-data away from our
> code complately. We'd expect to create some hooks to keep them apart as
> well.
>
> (I think I recall reading somewhere that Mercurial itself might be changed
> to work in such a way in future, but alas I don't remember where that was.)
>
> Has anyone tried this and found it to be a great/terrible idea?

I like this scheme (and I actually might have talked about on the
mailing list), but I don't know anybody who actually tried it. If you
do, make sure to come back here and give us feedback !

cheers,

Benoit