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

Dj Gilcrease digitalxero at gmail.com
Wed Sep 29 16:29:54 CEST 2010

On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 9:36 AM, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> wrote:

You don't need to spend any extra time on this: just put all the tags that Dirkjan wants to delete into some other place. The separation work has already been done by Dirkjan.

Note that the reason for keeping this history around is just that: for historic purposes and possible future research (e.g on copyright issues). It's not meant for development.

Can just create a .hgtags_historic that has the full tag list so if someone wants to do historic tag data mining they can just replace the .hgtags to get the historic tags.

mm that gives me an idea for a HG plugin to be able to set a tag as historic so it removes it from the .hgtags to .hgtags_historic and some bindings to be able to use historic tags just like normal tags (but ensure it is explicit to look in historic eg --historic)

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