From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2008 17:51:51 GMT
Subject: Re: Git/Mercurial interoperability (and what about bzr?)
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0811011047050.3483@nehalem.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <20081101133931.GC8134@mit.edu>



On Sat, 1 Nov 2008, Theodore Tso wrote:
> 
> .hgtags is stored as a versioned file in Mercurial.  That's one of the
> problems, and it leads to no shortage of headaches.

I told people this was insane long long ago, and I thought the hg people 
had learnt to use local tags. They act sanely, as far as I know (ie they 
act the same way git tags do).

Of course, the problem with hg local tags is that hg apparently has no 
sane way to _propagate_ such local tag-space information from one 
repository to another. But that's purely a problem with hg itself. I don't 
know why that hasn't gotten fixed.

			Linus