Tags fix proposal (was: Promoting the use of Mercurial..)

[Gábor Farkas]

On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 1:50 PM, Hans Meine
<meine at informatik.uni-hamburg.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> AFAICS, one of the main "glitches" people report about hg tags is that "clone
> -r foo" does not contain the tag foo.  I wonder if this couldn't be improved
> by changing clone, simply by including the said next revision.  Of course, the
> downside is that it changes the semantics slightly, so I first thought of it
> as an option, but maybe it can even be the default if the user specified a tag
> by name.

i generally found it much better to:

1. clone the whole remote repository (best with "hg clone -U")
2. update it to the needed tag

gabor