GNU bug report logs - #22083
25.0.50; hg: adding tag enhances the rev, modeline does not reflect

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Uwe Brauer <oub <at> mat.ucm.es>

Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2015 13:53:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in version 25.0.50

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Message #62 received at 22083 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
To: Andy Moreton <andrewjmoreton <at> gmail.com>, 22083 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#22083: 25.0.50; hg: adding tag enhances the rev, modeline
 does not reflect
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?
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