Updated tags support

[Jan Hudec]

On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 15:12:13 -0600, John A Meinel wrote:
> Jan Hudec wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 13:03:33 -0600, Matthew D. Fuller wrote:
> >> On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 10:11:56AM -0800 I heard the voice of
> >> Robey Pointer, and lo! it spake thus:
> >>> I've been trying to stay out of this one, but I can't resist any
> >>> more.
> >>>
> >>> This all seems ridiculously complex.  Commit a tag? What? :)  Could
> >>> we simplify this down?
> >> That's my feeling.
> >>
> >> % bzr tag -r78 FOO
> >> % bzr tag --delete FOO
> >> % bzr tag --move -r79 FOO
> >> % bzr tag --list
> >>
> >> Those all seem pretty self explanatory.  The only obvious ambiguity is
> >> whether "bzr tag FOO" would tag the head of the tree or the currently
> >> checked-out rev.  Commiting tags, or `bzr showtag` and `bzr movetag`
> > 
> > AFAICT bzr does not support checking out different revision than the
> > current head, so there is no ambiguity.
> > 
> >> and `bzr settag` and family, just make me twitch.  I'm slowly moving
> >> stuff into bzr instead of into tla for a _reason_!
> 
> I believe Matthew was referring to the behavior of Niemeyer's tag
> branch, where "bzr set-tag FOO" sets a tag such that it gets the
> revision id of the next commit.

Well, that's outright bogus. Didn't realize this part of the question.

> If we separate tags from the commit logic, I don't think this is necessary.

I agree with separating them. I don't want to think ahead of commit that
I want to give it a name.

-- 
						 Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb at ucw.cz>
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