From: Felipe Contreras Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2011 15:21:25 GMT Subject: Re: Jabber, question on push,pull and --tags, and no help but jabber Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <4DECE4D6.9000204@drmicha.warpmail.net> On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 5:31 PM, Michael J Gruber wrote: > Steffen Daode Nurpmeso venit, vidit, dixit 06.06.2011 15:02: >> Hello GIT, >>     first paragraph is reserved for praising your existence. >>     'Used cvs(1) for long years in small team projects with local >>     private repos and never felt the need for anything else.  2011 >>     is different.  I first tried you but failed resoundingly.  Due >>     to vim(1) and mutt(1) i discovered hg(1) and i still love it's >>     simple usage.  'Talking about the front-end anyway.  It's huge >>     memory consumption and slow performance forbids it's usage on >>     our old PCs (e.g. Cyrix 166+) though.  So i came back and >>     found you still receptive!  And the more i work, the less >>     i hurt, the greater the knowledge, the smoother the >>     interaction.  Are you the final word on RC in the end? >> >> I stumbled over one thing i don't understand, because it seems >> illogical: why do i need to use --tags to force pushing of tags? >> Because there is even a config option for the latter, i suspect >> this is because of intention.  It would be nice to get some >> information on the background of that, like a link to yet existing >> documentation.  Anyway i was a bit astonished to look at some > > Tags may contain private information. Say you pull some changes from > your head of group, find a strange commit you want to look at later and > tag it with "what-is-this-crap"... > > More seriously, tags are not part of the "remotes layout", so when you > push them and others pull them they overwrite their tags if there's a > name clash. Until tag namespaces are merged. -- Felipe Contreras