[Python-Dev] hg conversion: tags (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Wed Sep 29 14:16:42 CEST 2010

On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 6:29 PM, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> wrote:

I'm not sure whether throwing away history in form of such tags is a good idea.

I don't know how hg manages this, but can't we preserve the tag information of the tags that you've scheduled to be removed in some place that can easily be pulled in but doesn't affect the main repo size ?

But why bother? The tags are static, so grabbing them from svn instead of hg shouldn't be a big issue. If we had unlimited resources to support the transition my opinion would probably be different, but since we don't, applying the simple rule of culling the non-release tags seems good enough and better than spending too much time trying to figure out which tags are "important" enough to be worth preserving.

Renaming the release tags certainly is a good idea, since we're not stuck with CVS naming requirements anymore. I'd prefix the release tags with "release-" for additional context, though.

So long as we don't start using bare numbers for anything other than releases, I think that would just become redundant typing in fairly short order.

Cheers, Nick.

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