On Sun, Sep 7, 2014 at 5:42 PM, Philip Bennefall <phi...@blastbay.com> wrote:
> Just to be sure I understand you correctly, is there then a conceptual > difference between tags added with tag add and --tag in the commit command? > No funcational difference. > I thought that they were the same, with the main difference being that > tags added in the commit command never propagate. > In principle a tag added via the CLI "should" be able to be any of the 3 tag types: a) propagating b) non-propagating c) "cancel" (a.k.a. "anti-tag") The only syntactic difference between the three is their initial starting character: *propagating +non-propagating -cancel However, the --tag option appears: http://fossil-scm.org/index.html/info/9c962d6971b7b92374b0159e5c3068a7bc8f8797?ln=1236 to assume that all tags passed in this way are "symbolic" tags[1], and will in fact do non-intuitive things if you try to use: --tag '*propagating' (with an asterisk in front to make it look like a propagating tag). IMO the '*' at the front of the name should be respected to mean "this is a propagating tag," and a '-' at the front could/should be used to mean "cancel the tag." Potential points for improvement at some point. [1] http://fossil-scm.org/index.html/doc/tip/www/branching.wiki -- ----- stephan beal http://wanderinghorse.net/home/stephan/ http://gplus.to/sgbeal "Freedom is sloppy. But since tyranny's the only guaranteed byproduct of those who insist on a perfect world, freedom will have to do." -- Bigby Wolf
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