clone by tag, but tag doesn't appear in the clone

[Paul J. Morris]

Thanks Brendan,

I thought that there would have to be an equivalent way using mercurial -
just a question adjusting to a new way of thinking.


regards,
Paul Morris



Brendan Cully-4 wrote:
> 
> On Tuesday, 02 December 2008 at 12:08, Paul J. Morris wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Issac,
>> 
>> 
>> I thought this may be the case.  Bit of a nuisance, currently looking at
>> moving from CVS.  Our build process uses checkout by tag, so the build
>> process knows what it's tag is.
> 
> checkout is different from pull. There's probably little harm in
> pulling everything, then updating to the tag. That'll keep the tag
> info available.
> 
> (I agree this behaviour is not the friendliest)
> 
>> Isaac Jurado wrote:
>> > 
>> > On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 5:47 AM, Paul J. Morris
>> > <paul.morris at solnetsolutions.co.nz> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> I'm cloning a repository by a specific tag, yet in the cloned
>> >> repository "hg tags" doesn't list the tag that the repository was
>> >> cloned from.
>> > 
>> > This is a Mercurial design issue (personally, is the only thing I
>> really
>> > hate about it).
>> > 
>> > Tags are "archived" as a later revisions.  Therefore, if you only clone
>> > until the tag, the tag itself is not propagated as the revision that
>> > stores the tag in .hgtags is AFTER the revision referenced by the tag.
>> > 
>> > I hope I didn't mess the explanation up.
>> > 
>> 
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