Tags fix proposal

[Sean Russell]

Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> On Sun, 11 Jan 2009 18:53:48 +0100, Mathieu Clabaut wrote:
>   
>> On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 1:50 PM, Hans Meine wrote:
>>     
>>> 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
>>>       
...
>     hg clone -r tagname source-repo destination-repo
>
> and then being unable to see the tag with:
>
>     hg -R destination-repo tags | fgrep tagname
>
> or even seeing the *wrong* changeset (because the tag was overruled and
> there is an 'old' changeset with this tag in the destination repository.
>   
This is, to me, the most worrisome aspect of Mercurial tagging: tagging 
in Mercurial isn't idempotent.

    hg clone -r tagname A B
    hg clone -r tagname B C

The latter command, at best, fails; at worst, it gives you the wrong 
version (as you mentioned).

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