Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Best practice using monotone

[Andy Jones]

I know it's a pain but really, ideally, this is a bug.  Either the
system should cope with multiple identical tags, or it shouldn't allow
you to make them.    Principal of least astonishment.

I guess you would have to cope with them, since you can't know that
you've currently got the whole universe in the local database?

Anyhow, that narrows it down - I have to arrange for a branch for each
release I want to "sticky".

I must say I like the idea of the H: tag ...



On 24/08/06, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker <address@hidden> wrote:
> In message <address@hidden> on Thu, 24 Aug 2006 17:40:17 +0100, "Andy Jones" 
> <address@hidden> said:
>
> andyjwork> Alternatively I could just write a script that did 'mtn update -r 
> t:test' !
> andyjwork>
> andyjwork> (Um, that +would+ get the +latest+ revision with that tag, right?)
>
> No, if there is more than one revision tagged with 'test', I think
> you'd get an error asking you to disambiguate between all the revision
> ids.  I've a branch, nvm.levitte.select-heads-of, that adds a magic
> selector H: that simply selects the headmost revision of the following
> selector, so you could say 'mtn update -r H:t:test'.  It *is* a hack,
> though, more work is needed to make it worthy of mainline.  You might
> be interested in http://www.venge.net/monotone/wiki/MagicSelectors
> btw.
>
> Cheers,
> Richard
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