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List:       fossil-users
Subject:    Re: [fossil-users] not fossil-specific: use of tags/branches
From:       Richard Hipp <drh () sqlite ! org>
Date:       2014-04-25 11:28:51
Message-ID: CALwJ=MzV+69CP9avr3PO85R3rPkGu3ZHTLrwjT2WMd4yyLkUOQ () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 5:58 AM, Michai Ramakers <m.ramakers@gmail.com>wrote:

>
> I find myself having to answer the simple question "what part of the
> repo does a tag apply to", and for older repos and ill-chosen
> tagnames, this is not always obvious. Of course from fossil's point of
> view, a tag applies to the repo, period.
>

If the same tag applies to two or more things and you use that tag in a
context where it needs to mean one thing, then Fossil normally picks the
thing that is lastest in time.

So, for example, the Fossil self-hosting repo has 4954 objects tagged with
"trunk" - essentially every check-in that is on the trunk.  But if you type
"fossil update trunk" or "fossil diff --from trunk" then it resolves
"trunk" to be the latest check-in with that tag.


-- 
D. Richard Hipp
drh@sqlite.org

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<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, \
Apr 25, 2014 at 5:58 AM, Michai Ramakers <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a \
href="mailto:m.ramakers@gmail.com" \
target="_blank">m.ramakers@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc \
solid;padding-left:1ex"><br> I find myself having to answer the simple question \
&quot;what part of the<br> repo does a tag apply to&quot;, and for older repos and \
ill-chosen<br> tagnames, this is not always obvious. Of course from fossil&#39;s \
point of<br> view, a tag applies to the repo, \
period.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>If the same tag applies to two or more \
things and you use that tag in a context where it needs to mean one thing, then \
Fossil normally picks the thing that is lastest in time.<br>

<br>So, for example, the Fossil self-hosting repo has 4954 objects tagged with \
&quot;trunk&quot; - essentially every check-in that is on the trunk.   But if you \
type &quot;fossil update trunk&quot; or &quot;fossil diff --from trunk&quot; then it \
resolves &quot;trunk&quot; to be the latest check-in with that tag.<br>

</div><div><br>  </div></div>-- <br>D. Richard Hipp<br><a \
href="mailto:drh@sqlite.org" target="_blank">drh@sqlite.org</a> </div></div>



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