tags vs branches in a repo

[Matthew D. Fuller]

On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 10:44:33AM +0200 I heard the voice of
Jan Hudec, and lo! it spake thus:
> 
> It is often useful to ask which tags point to a particular revision
> or to it's ancestor. Then you can use tags to mark various features
> and have an easy weay to see which of them were merged in some
> branch.

It's also useful to ask "What tags are on this branch?", and similar
questions.


> This leads me to think, that tags are really just a kind of revision
> properties.

I think tags need to be a _branch_ property.  If I branch your branch,
of course, I should get your tags (x-ref many discussions about
details of conflict resolution etc), but I should also be able to have
2 otherwise-identical branches with different tags (say, by removing
all the tags on one).


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