Manually adding tags

[Harvey Chapman]

Is there any reason why I shouldn't manually add (and only add) tags (by machine-editing the .hgtags file)? Currently, I have a build script that adds a tag and then updates a file with the next version number to come. It then commits that file. I'm thinking of combining the two steps to keep the log shorter and people get confused now when they see the next version number in a commit message. I wouldn't feel like I needed to put the next version number in the commit message if I combined the two changes.

Thanks,
Harvey