Re: [Monotone-devel] movable monotone tags

[Stanislav Karchebny]

On Thursday 26 May 2005 10:00, you wrote:

> Movable certs aren't really possible with the distributed nature of
> monotone.  Basically, the old position of the tag might always came
> back and bite you.

Yeah it can.

Here's a little relevant bit of info i think from the git list
"Superceded tags"
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=git&m=111719320004462&w=2

> However, if you read the manual (and have a recent enough monotone.
> I'm not entirely dure if it's present on 0.19 or not), you will find
> that it's possible to select for arbitrary cert name and value
> combinations.  So using your own cert (say, "X-build", following the
> tradition of prepending a "X-" to anything unofficial), you can mark
> any revision you like with some version number, and then have your
> buildscript look for the latest occurence of that value.  A
> combination of 'monotone automate select c:X-build=m.n.e' and
> 'monotone automate erase_ancestors' should do the trick.  I've planned
> on doing something like that, just haven't quite gotten to it yet.

That sounds doable. I'll try X-approach.

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Stanislav Karchebny

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