tagging without checkin

[John Arbash Meinel]

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Alex Greif wrote:
> Hi,
> I want to do the following:
> after checking in all changes for a certain version (like version 3.2
> of my software) I would like to tag the bazaar tree somehow, so that
> in the logs I can see when the version 3.2 was completed. Sure I could
> modify a file and do a bzr ci -m "v3.2", but is there a possibility to
> do this without a dummy modification and a checkin?
> 
> Alex.
> 
> 

Michael Ellerman wrote a plugin which does:
http://michael.ellerman.id.au/bzr/plugins/tags

There has been a lot of discussion about what the right method for
handling tags would be.
We have a spec page written up:
http://bazaar-vcs.org/BzrTagging

The problem is figuring out how to get tags to propogate, whether they
should be versioned. Whether we can version them as part of the standard
data, or whether they need their own meta-information.
If you use the standard method, you have to 'bzr commit' the changes.
And it doesn't seem quite right to commit the changes to items that
point to revisions.
At the same time, we really need to get something.

Martin & I discussed my proposal, but he is concerned about the level of
complication from my proposal.

John
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