Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: How to remove tag from revision

[jack-monotone]

On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 02:08:08PM +1100, Brian May wrote:
 
>     Bruce> (Mercurial's scheme is the neatest for this, I think: tags are 
> stored
>     Bruce> in a versioned file, so it can conflict in the normal way.  But 
> even
>     Bruce> that has complications, IIRC.)
 
> What complications does it have?

The tags are in-band (the .hgtags file), so creating a tag creates a new
revision. 

Also, the algorithm mercurial uses to determine the version of the .hgtags file
is not transparent. 

--Jack 

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