[Python-Dev] Mercurial: tag generation incorrect

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Wed Jul 15 21:26:38 CEST 2009


Hagen Fürstenau wrote:
>> be32850b093f is listed
>> as having a child revision, 52b0a279fec6, and ISTM that *this*
>> should be the revision that got tagged.
> 
> I think the tag is correct. Note that the concept of tagging is
> different in Mercurial, where a tag can only refer to a revision
> previous to the one where it is inserted in .hgtags. If I understand
> correctly, all relevant tagging revisions from SVN are replaced by
> Mercurial revisions setting tags, which then refer to their immediate
> predecessors.

Ah, ok. Thanks for the explanation.

Regards,
Martin


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