From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
Cc: "Óscar Fuentes" <ofv@wanadoo.es>,
"Andreas Schwab" <schwab@linux-m68k.org>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Release tags
Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2012 11:27:50 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwva9x1zwn9.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zk52q86l.fsf@gnu.org> (Jason Rumney's message of "Fri, 07 Sep 2012 21:22:26 +0800")
> branch. But DVCS adherents want the possibility of an alternate
> universe where 24.2 is on the history of the trunk. The benefit of this
I think there's just a simple misunderstanding of what tags are.
Bazaar's tags are just mapping from names to revids. They're stored in
a branch because that seemed like a good idea. Bzr propagates it
between branches whenever it gets a chance, pretty much. So the tags in
a branch can refer to revids in different branches, some of which may
have nothing to do whatsoever with the current branch. There can also
be a tag that points to a revid that doesn't exist, or that existed but
has been retracted, ...
I think Bzr's tags were not very well though out (e.g. you can't remove
a tag, because of how Bzr likes to eagerly and blindly spread them,
which causes them to come right back unless you remove them from
everywhere at the same time). But the important point is that they do
not say anything reliable about the history of the current branch on
which you find them.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-07 15:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-28 16:48 Release tags chad
2012-08-29 2:40 ` Chong Yidong
2012-09-04 0:40 ` Tim Cross
2012-09-04 2:25 ` Óscar Fuentes
2012-09-04 2:29 ` William Stevenson
2012-09-04 2:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-04 14:32 ` Jason Rumney
2012-09-04 15:57 ` Óscar Fuentes
2012-09-04 16:04 ` Jason Rumney
2012-09-04 17:47 ` Andreas Schwab
2012-09-05 14:55 ` Jason Rumney
2012-09-05 15:18 ` Andreas Schwab
2012-09-05 15:33 ` Óscar Fuentes
2012-09-07 13:22 ` Jason Rumney
2012-09-07 14:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-07 15:27 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2012-09-04 18:24 ` Óscar Fuentes
2012-09-04 22:43 ` Tim Cross
2012-09-05 1:53 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-09-05 2:34 ` Óscar Fuentes
2012-09-05 3:07 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-09-05 3:49 ` Óscar Fuentes
2012-09-05 5:11 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-09-05 6:34 ` Jambunathan K
2012-09-05 12:48 ` Tim Cross
2012-09-05 16:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-05 16:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-05 16:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-05 17:32 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-09-05 17:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-05 14:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-09-04 16:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-04 16:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-05 7:16 ` Glenn Morris
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