(partly) updated Tagging spec

[John Arbash Meinel]

Gustavo Niemeyer wrote:
>>>> The basic idea is that tags should be represented by directories in
>>>> the filesystem or url namespace, just as branches are.
>>> That isn't very clear to me.  Is it like Subversion, then?
>> I really really would like to be able to see tags in the log output.
>> Like this
> (...)
>> I don't think we should copy svn to much here.
> 
> We went through this already, and I guess most of us agree that
> the Subversion approach is not ideal for bzr.
> 
> The spec pointed out by Martin leaves it clear to me that he's
> aware of these concerns, so I guess the to-be-proposed approach
> is just a different way to achieve the same results mentioned
> in the current spec.  The updated spec should clarify it.
> 

Well, it sounds like he is thinking to create a tag as:

/tag-one/
  .bzr/
     tag-format

We already have 100% implementation of the svn format (though it is
exposed by branch: rather than tag:).

Exposing them in the filesystem/url namespace seems to be exactly what
SVN does. And either you expect a specific layout (svn prefers if you
use trunk/, branches/, tags/), or a repository. And it seems like tags
should be useful with plain standalone branches, with possible upgrades
when using a repository.

John
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