Copying tags?

Afternoon,

We've enforced a rule whereby tags cannot be copied. I know this sounds
backwards but I need some help in justifying it.

The reason why we're preventing it is because it's not clear where to
merge back to, and in fact encourages merging back to the tag, which is
also blocked.

What we're telling people to do, in the event of a bug where they need
to make a patch to a released version, is find the rev the tag was
created from, then branch whatever branch the tag was created from at
that rev. Then when the work is finished they can merge back to the
parent, if necessary.

Of course this only works if the tag was created from a rev and not a
working copy, but we're enforcing that too.

Sound reasonable, or are we being too cautious?

Cheers, jamie

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Received on 2011-01-27 14:48:29 CET