read-only bookmarks

[Augie Fackler]

On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 1:41 PM, Felix Dorner <fdorner at tuenti.com> wrote:
> Hi Kevin,
>
> On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 6:17 PM, Kevin Bullock
> <kbullock+mercurial at ringworld.org> wrote:
>
>> Bookmarks aren't designed to do this.
>
> Yes. I didn't feel it's a good idea either.
>
>> Tags are created with commits because this makes them auditable in the same way that the rest of the project history is auditable. An alternate design would put tags in a > parallel history (i.e., their own revlog—and this has been discussed to death here and on -devel), but that's not the design choice that was made.
>
> Say I follow the (good?) practice and the tagging changesets only
> affect .hgtags, no other files. What would be a good way to filter
> them out from the history? What I'd need is a hg log that shows me all
> changesets except the ones that only modified .hgtags. And also the
> inverse: A log of all changesets that affect .hgtags and only .hgtags.
> I bet there's an easy one :)

hg log -r 'not modifies(.hgtags)'

>
> Thanks,
> Felix
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