Richard Lowe wrote: > Mike Kupfer <mike.kupfer at sun.com> writes: > > >>>>>>> "Rich" == Richard Lowe <richlowe at richlowe.net> writes: >>>>>>> >>>> But with Mercurial it could also be implemented as a tag in a single >>>> gate workspace. >>>> >> Rich> No, it couldn't, tags introduce changesets. >> >> Okay, but why is that a problem? Instead of <wad of changesets>, we >> have <wad of changesets> plus one changeset to set the tag. What am I >> missing? >> > > It is, in my mind, the equivalent of a merge turd that you get daily. > >
Why don't you use a local tag? It wouldn't be revision controlled - but would still enable people to do a 'hg clone -r nightly'. cheers, steve
