Re: [Monotone-devel] Tagging a revision?

[Daniel Carosone]

On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 08:32:22PM +0100, Markus Meyer wrote:
> Thanks everyone for their answers! Actually, I did read the manual [1]
> and I came across the "tag" command but not knowing much about monotone
> internals I couldn't conclude that this would really do what I expected.
> One problem is that the documentation for "mtn tag" only says that this
> command is a synonym for |mtn cert |id| tag |tagname" and the
> documentation for mtn cert says "These commands create a new certificate
> with name certname, for a revision with version id. If certval is
> provided, it is the value of the certificate. Otherwise the certificate
> value is read from |stdin|.". While this may be correct in the technical
> sense, I'm not sure it contributes to the understanding of the user ;)

Oops. That's a rather unfortunate oversight, probably relying on an
expectation that the purpose would be obvious from the name.  I'll add
some description of the purpose and reference to the t: selector
sometime today.

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Dan.

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