Managing tags?

[Benoit Boissinot]

On 9/6/06, John D. Mitchell <jdmitchell at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/6/06, Benoit Boissinot <bboissin at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 9/6/06, John D. Mitchell <jdmitchell at gmail.com> wrote:
> [...]
> > > (B) Is there any way to "freeze" a tag so that it can't be changed?
> > >
> > No. Why would you like that ? I'm not sure that would work for a
> > decentralized scm.
>
> Some tags I don't want to be able to change while others I want to
> have "float".  I.e., v1.1.3 should be "fixed" while "v1.x" would float
> to be marking the latest along that line.
>
A floating tag is a branch name, and we still don't have a satisfying
implementation of branch names (but we are working on it, you may have
seen emails from Andrew Beekhof "RFC: Revised branching
implementation")

regards,

Benoit