"Mark J. Nelson" <Mark.J.Nelson at Sun.COM> writes:

>> Quoth Mark J. Nelson on Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 03:52:07PM -0600:
>>> The html doc is a child of the "How to transition" page in the tools
>>> community, so it shows up in the sidebar there, and I also linked it in
>>> the list at the bottom of that page.
>>>
>>> http://opensolaris.org/os/community/tools/scm/hg_teamware_transition/hg_workflow/
>>
>> This is great, thanks!
>>
>> When I sync my project gate, I like to pull in the changeset which
>> includes the .hgtags update.  Do you think that's worth including?  Or
>> would it just be confusing?

It's possibly but not necessarily confusing.

You have no guarantee that the changeset that adds the tag is the
changeset following the tagged changeset.

The way it works right now, it should work with build changesets, but
it's not *certainly* always going to work.

> It's a good suggestion, because that way your project gate children can 
> also use the tag.  I didn't really play with it, but I imagine that they 
> cannot, otherwise.

They can't.

> We can minimize confusion with decent wording, and an example is worth a 
> thousand words.  I'll come up with something and run it by the alias in a 
> few, but may not get it before my 3:00PM meeting.

If you do, it should have some text similar to my second paragraph,
just in case.

-- Rich

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