[Pkg-bazaar-commits] ./bzr/unstable r492: - more notes on tagging

[Martin Pool]

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revno: 492
committer: Martin Pool <mbp at sourcefrog.net>
timestamp: Fri 2005-05-13 10:57:32 +1000
message:
  - more notes on tagging
modified:
  doc/tagging.txt
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=== modified file 'doc/tagging.txt'
--- a/doc/tagging.txt	2005-03-09 04:51:05 +0000
+++ b/doc/tagging.txt	2005-05-13 00:57:32 +0000
@@ -52,8 +52,6 @@
 Proposal: tags within a branch
 ------------------------------
 
-(This is probably "crack"; I don't think we'll do this.)
-
 You can place tags on a branch as shorthand for a particular
 revision::
 
@@ -78,6 +76,10 @@
 * Tags are added or changed by a commit; they mark previous revisions
   but are only visible when looking from a later commit.
 
+  This has the fairly strange effect that if you check out a previous
+  tag, you can't see the tag anymore (or you see the value it
+  previously had.)
+
 * Tags are not versioned; if you move them they're gone.
 
 * Tags exist within their own versioning space.
@@ -94,5 +96,12 @@
 
 as just STABLE it finds the most recent tag.
 
-(Is this kludgy?)
-
+Should tags propagate across merges, and if so how?
+
+
+
+Implementation Plan
+-------------------
+
+Add tags as non-versioned objects, that for the moment do not
+propagate across branches.