Re: Damaged hg repo? Where did the tags go?

[John W. Eaton]

On  3-Apr-2011, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:

| 2011/4/3 John W. Eaton <address@hidden>:
| > On  3-Apr-2011, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
| >
| > | Something weird is going on. If you look at the tags in .hgtags:
| > |
| > |      http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/file/6ef23b4a3402/.hgtags
| > |
| > | And you compare them to the history of .hgtags, you'll see a bunch of
| > | tags are missing. I can't even seem to show this on the web interface,
| > | but on my clone, "hg log .hgtags" brings up tags like release-3-0-1
| > | that aren't in .hgtags and mentions changesets that don't exist. I
| > | noticed this around Thursday last week or so. Does someone have an
| > | older clone that doesn't exhibit this problem?
| >
| > If I run "hg tags" on my local archive, I get the tags listed in
| > .hgtags plus tags for release-3-4-0, ss-3-3-92, ss-3-3-91, and
| > ss-3-3-90.  Looking at http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/tags
| > shows these additional tags as well.  I don't know why .hgtags is
| > incomplete.
| 
| Are you able to update to those tags? I get
| 
|      address@hidden:~/coding/vcs/octave$ hg up release-3-0-1
|      abort: address@hidden: no node!
| 
| which certainly sounds like something's amiss.

I don't see a tag "release-3-0-1" in my .hgtags file or in the output
from "hg tags".

jwe