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tag: warn users about tag/branch possible name conflicts
As reported recently, Mercurial users can easily find confusion when
using a common name for a tag and a branch. It seems reasonable to warn
them about this potential outcome, to avoid that "surprise".
* Explain briefly the issue in "hg help tag"
* Warn when tagging a revision
| author | Nicolas Dumazet <nicdumz.commits@gmail.com> |
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| date | Mon, 19 Apr 2010 17:41:12 +0900 |
| parents | 51d0387523c6 |
| children | 37d1b20168d1 |
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| 3207 similarly to other project files and can be hand-edited if | 3207 similarly to other project files and can be hand-edited if |
| 3208 necessary. The file '.hg/localtags' is used for local tags (not | 3208 necessary. The file '.hg/localtags' is used for local tags (not |
| 3209 shared among repositories). | 3209 shared among repositories). |
| 3210 | 3210 |
| 3211 See :hg:`help dates` for a list of formats valid for -d/--date. | 3211 See :hg:`help dates` for a list of formats valid for -d/--date. |
| 3212 | |
| 3213 Since tag names have priority over branch names during revision | |
| 3214 lookup, using an existing branch name as a tag name is discouraged. | |
| 3212 """ | 3215 """ |
| 3213 | 3216 |
| 3214 rev_ = "." | 3217 rev_ = "." |
| 3215 names = (name1,) + names | 3218 names = (name1,) + names |
| 3216 if len(names) != len(set(names)): | 3219 if len(names) != len(set(names)): |