Re: Damaged hg repo? Where did the tags go?

[Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso]

2011/4/6 John W. Eaton <address@hidden>:
> On  3-Apr-2011, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
>
> | 2011/4/3 John W. Eaton <address@hidden>:
> | > On  3-Apr-2011, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
> | >
> | > | Something weird is going on. If you look at the tags in .hgtags:
> | > |
> | > |      http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/file/6ef23b4a3402/.hgtags
> | > |
> | > | And you compare them to the history of .hgtags, you'll see a bunch of
> | > | tags are missing. I can't even seem to show this on the web interface,
> | > | but on my clone, "hg log .hgtags" brings up tags like release-3-0-1
> | > | that aren't in .hgtags and mentions changesets that don't exist. I
> | > | noticed this around Thursday last week or so. Does someone have an
> | > | older clone that doesn't exhibit this problem?
> | >
> | > If I run "hg tags" on my local archive, I get the tags listed in
> | > .hgtags plus tags for release-3-4-0, ss-3-3-92, ss-3-3-91, and
> | > ss-3-3-90.  Looking at http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/tags
> | > shows these additional tags as well.  I don't know why .hgtags is
> | > incomplete.
> |
> | Are you able to update to those tags? I get
> |
> |     address@hidden:~/coding/vcs/octave$ hg up release-3-0-1
> |      abort: address@hidden: no node!
> |
> | which certainly sounds like something's amiss.
>
> I don't see a tag "release-3-0-1" in my .hgtags file or in the output
> from "hg tags".

No, but it used to be there. And it's in .hg/cache/tags and you'll see
when it was added if you do "hg log .hgtags". Same for the 3.2.x
release tags.

I have an inkling of what happened. The things those tags were
pointing at got squashed when the two branches got closed. Then those
tags remained in some places with dangling references. I'm not sure if
this is an hg bug or in hgtk where I saw the problem, or not a bug at
all. At any rate, if you want to update to the intermediate release
tags we used to have, they seem to no longer be there.

- Jordi G. H.