overwriting conflicting tags on push

[John Arbash Meinel]

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Adam Mercer wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I had to change which revision a tag in one of my branches pointed to,
> the next time I pushed the branch I got the following message:
> 
> $ bzr push
> Using saved location: sftp://path/to/remote/branch/
> Pushed up to revision 2871.
> Conflicting tags:
>    f2f_200707_talk
> $
> 
> using the --overwrite option to bzr push also resulted in the
> "Conflicting tags" message to be printed. Is there anyway to remove
> the original tag in the remote branch without removing the tag from
> the remote branch by connecting to the remote location and remove the
> tag with
> 
> $ bzr tag --remove f2f_200707_talk
> 
> or by removing the remote branch and re-pushing?
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Adam

At the moment, I don't believe there is a way. I think it is an open bug, and
something Martin is planning on spending some time addressing. (There are other
tag related issues, like how the interact with checkouts/bound branches).

John
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