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25.0.50; hg: adding tag enhances the rev, modeline does not reflect

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Message #77 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: Tue, 8 Dec 2015 00:05:08 +0200

On 12/07/2015 04:36 PM, Andy Moreton wrote:

> You don't need to know which branch a tag is on, you can simply checkout
> a tag as expected.

...as long as the tag is present in .hgtags in the latest revision on 
the current branch, right? That's what I meant.

> The Mercurial book is a little old, but has some useful detail:
> http://hgbook.red-bean.com/read/managing-releases-and-branchy-development.html

It doesn't seem to go into that detail, but 
https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/Tag says:

"Updating a working dir to a particular tag will take that directory 
back to a point before the tag itself existed."

Anyway, this is a bit off topic, so I'm going to stop here.

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