Manually adding tags

[Scott Palmer]

On 2011-08-26, at 8:40 AM, Isaac Jurado wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 1:26 PM, Scott Palmer <swpalmer at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> If I understood correctly, you wan to tag a changeset you are about
>>> to commit, right?  If that is the case, you can forget about it
>>> because the .hgtags file needs the revision ID (the SHA) which you
>>> can't know until AFTER commit has been done.  So there is a
>>> bootstrapping problem.
>>> 
>>> Besides, the "hg tag" command is just that:
>>> 
>>> $ echo "version shaid" >>.hgtags && hg commit
>> 
>> I think he just wants to include more in that same commit. He is still
>> tagging an older version.
> 
> Oh well, in that case what I wrote doesn't apply.

Now that I think about it, wouldn't it make sense to have something like a --no-commit option for hg tag ?
That way we avoid people directly mucking about in the .hgtags file.  That could possible avoid some of the things that Greg was warning about earlier in this thread.

Scott