[Python-Dev] v2.7 tag

[Dirkjan Ochtman]

On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 10:45, Stefan Krah <stefan-usenet at bytereef.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I can't update to v2.7 in the new cpython repository:
>
> $ hg up v2.7
> abort: unknown revision 'v2.7'!
>
> Am I missing something here? My goal is to get the same directory state
> as from this command:
>
> svn co http://svn.python.org/projects/python/tags/r27

Did you by any chance use hg clone -rv2.7? That's a common gotcha:
that will only clone the repository up to but not including the
tagging changeset (the tip in the clone will be the tagged changeset),
meaning a subsequent update to the tag will fail.

Cheers,

Dirkjan