[Python-Dev] hg conversion: tags

[Benjamin Peterson]

2010/9/29 Tres Seaver <tseaver at palladion.com>:
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> On 09/29/2010 08:16 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 6:29 PM, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> wrote:
>>> I'm not sure whether throwing away history in form of such tags
>>> is a good idea.
>>>
>>> I don't know how hg manages this, but can't we preserve the tag
>>> information of the tags that you've scheduled to be removed
>>> in some place that can easily be pulled in but doesn't
>>> affect the main repo size ?
>>
>> But why bother? The tags are static, so grabbing them from svn instead
>> of hg shouldn't be a big issue. If we had unlimited resources to
>> support the transition my opinion would probably be different, but
>> since we don't, applying the simple rule of culling the non-release
>> tags seems good enough and better than spending too much time trying
>> to figure out which tags are "important" enough to be worth
>> preserving.
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> I think the key heuristic is which information you want to use directly
> in Hg, e.g. to diff between tags, or diff a working branch against a
> tag.  Based on how I use tags under SVN, the release tags account for
> nearly all of such cases.  Having to go back to SVN to check out the
> rare exception seems like a good tradeoff.
>
>>> Renaming the release tags certainly is a good idea, since
>>> we're not stuck with CVS naming requirements anymore. I'd prefix
>>> the release tags with "release-" for additional context,
>>> though.
>>
>> So long as we don't start using bare numbers for anything other than
>> releases, I think that would just become redundant typing in fairly
>> short order.
>
> +1 for bare release numbers (Dirkjan's proposal).  Although I would
> prefer 'c' over 'rc' in the normalized case, PEP 386 allows 'rc' as an
> alternative to 'c' precisely because some Python versions used it).  I
> think we need to make the migrated version tags match the corresponding
> tarball version numbers exactly.

Well, the tarballs use rc, too.



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Regards,
Benjamin