Subject: bug#22083: 25.0.50; hg: adding tag enhances the rev, modeline does not reflect

From: Dmitry Gutov <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2015 21:08:13 +0200

On 12/05/2015 02:24 PM, Andy Moreton wrote:

> That is normal - mercurial stores tags in a plain text file .hgtags at
> the root of the repo, which is versioned the same way as any other file.
>
> This means that adding a tag is effectively the same as editing
> .hgtags and committing the change.

Does that mean that the set of available tags is dependent on the 
current branch? And you can't simply check out a tag, you also have to 
know which branch it is on?