Stephen Lau <stevel at opensolaris.org> writes:

> 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'.

That'd work for me, yes.

-- Rich

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