[Monotone-devel] Re: [stupid user question] Renaming a tag?

[Bruce Stephens]

"Julio M. Merino Vidal" <address@hidden> writes:

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> Even with policy branches, will that be possible?  Tag certs, at the
> moment, cannot be identified by anything else other than their
> contents itself; i.e. they do not have an author nor date attached to
> them.  So, how can you ban a tag cert?  Ban the name?  Or in policy
> branches, certs get an identifier (be author/date, or whatever) that
> can later be used for these purposes?

Tags might have identities separate from their names, much as it's
been proposed that branches might.  So if you have a mechanism for
renaming branches, presumably the same scheme might work for tags,
too.