On Sat, Nov 01, 2008 at 10:51:51AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Sat, 1 Nov 2008, Theodore Tso wrote: > > > > .hgtags is stored as a versioned file in Mercurial. That's one of the > > problems, and it leads to no shortage of headaches. > > I told people this was insane long long ago, and I thought the hg people > had learnt to use local tags. They act sanely, as far as I know (ie they > act the same way git tags do). > > Of course, the problem with hg local tags is that hg apparently has no > sane way to _propagate_ such local tag-space information from one > repository to another. But that's purely a problem with hg itself. I don't > know why that hasn't gotten fixed. Yeah, well, hg calls them _local_ tags, and so people consider that by design, they aren't supposed to be propagated outside of the local repository. As I recall, hg doesn't support GPG signing local tags, for the same reason. - Ted -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
