Updated tags support

[Robert Collins]

On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 19:18 -0600, John A Meinel wrote:
> Aaron Bentley wrote:
> > Matthew D. Fuller wrote:
> > | On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 06:32:10PM -0500 I heard the voice of
> > | Aaron Bentley, and lo! it spake thus:
> > 
> > |>1. The current set of tags is shared among all branches
> > |
> > |
> > | I would tend toward this, as far as possible.  I see several scenarios
> > | to be considered here, and how I'd like them to be handled.
> > 
> > It's a given that branching and mirroring will copy tags.  That's not
> > what I was talking about.
> > 
> > I was talking about the possibility that all branches (in a repository)
> > would have exactly the same tag definitions at any given time.
> > 
> > If you have local branch A, and you pull from B, that should definitely
> > change the tags known in A, if B has any tag updates.  But should it
> > also change the tags known in another branch in the same repository?
> > 
> > Aaron
> 
> Well, because repositories can contain completely independent branches,
> I'll have to say no. Because you might have 2 libraries, both with
> 'release-1.0', and they would definitely point to different versions.
> 
> I don't think we want to make any sort of requirement that tags be
> unique inside a repository.
> 
> So I've changed my stance. I think tags should be a branch-level
> property. Not repository level.

I think they should look and feel branch level, but [possibly] be
repository stored.

Rob

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