Yes, it definitely makes sense that --tag should honor *, - and +. When
it comes to the tags output in the editor document, could the tags added
with tag add be included as well or are there some difficulties there? I
should say that I am a relatively new Fossil user, and while I am
comfortable using it I have next to no knowledge about the internals.
Kind regards,
Philip Bennefall
On 9/7/2014 5:56 PM, Stephan Beal wrote:
On Sun, Sep 7, 2014 at 5:42 PM, Philip Bennefall <phi...@blastbay.com
<mailto: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
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