On Mar 18, 2012, at 12:03 AM, Georg Brandl wrote: >I'm afraid it's the latter: tags are entries in .hgtags. So when you >completely null-merge your 2.6 changes into 2.7, you are basically removing >the tag from the 2.7 branch. And since to find tags, Mercurial looks in the >.hgtags files of all active branch heads, you are basically hiding the tag >when you merge 2.6 into 2.7, at which point it becomes an inactive branch >head.
D'oh. Okay, so leave the .hgtags file alone when null merging 2.6->2.7. Actually, that probably applies to all forward merges, so I think this would be useful information for either the devguide or PEP 101, or both. I updated the latter right at the --tag step. Thanks, -Barry _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com