[Python-Dev] cpython (2.6): Added tag v2.6.8rc2 for changeset bd9e1a02e3e3

[Georg Brandl]

On 03/18/2012 12:15 AM, Éric Araujo wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Le 17/03/2012 19:03, Georg Brandl a écrit :
>> On 03/17/2012 11:43 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote:
>> I'm afraid it's the latter: tags are entries in .hgtags. So when you completely
>> null-merge your 2.6 changes into 2.7, you are basically removing the tag from
>> the 2.7 branch.  And since to find tags, Mercurial looks in the .hgtags files
>> of all active branch heads, you are basically hiding the tag when you merge
>> 2.6 into 2.7, at which point it becomes an inactive branch head.
> 
> The plus side to this concept of tags as entries in a file is that it’s
> trivial to add the missing 2.6 tags in the 2.7 branch.
> 
> Note that duplicate entries in .hgtags (when a tag was redone) should
> not be “cleaned up”: the presence of the old changeset hash greatly
> helps conflict resolution.  (If someone pulled the repo with the old tag
> and later pulls and updates, then they don’t have to find out which hash
> is the right tag, they just accept all changes from the updated file
> into their local file.)

I don't understand that argument: especially when there is no change in the tree
between the two tags.

Georg