bzr tag ?

[Martin Pool]

On 11 Jun 2005, John Arbash Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com> wrote:
> Thibault North wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> > I would like to know if bzr will one day let us precise tags in
> > addition of revision numbers. For exemple, Darcs has a tag command,
> > which let us mark a version tag (ex. 0.0.1) at a certain level of
> > maturity of the project.
> > I think this could be useful : working for a project often mean
> > releasing a new version of a project as soon as some bugs are
> > corrected and features added. So when you tag a set of patches with a
> > version number, you just know that right here you have a relatively
> > stable build.
> > I just had a look at bzr doc, but didn't find something like that.
> > Or do you consider that a commit with an explicit version number is
> > enought ?
> > Regards,
> > TNorth

Yes, bzr will have this too.  The main question is whether the tags
should be mutable, and if so how.  

  http://bazaar-ng.org/doc/tagging.html

There is also a question of how tags should propagate between
branches, if at all.

> It also would be possible to maintain this as a single XML file, where
> each tag is maintained somewhere on the tree. But I prefer files that
> are either write-once or append only. That way history is never
> modified, so you can't have an accident and destroy history. (It also
> helps with signatures, etc.)

-- 
Martin