Sorting tags

[John Arbash Meinel]

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On 2/1/2012 12:24 PM, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 01, 2012 at 12:12:51PM +0100, Voelker, Bernhard wrote:
>> John Arbash Meinel wrote:
>> 
>>> bzr tags --sort=time
>> 
>> Interesting - bzr.dev seems to have some unnumbered tags:
>> 
>> ... bzr-2.4.2            6015.45.1 bzr-2.5b3            6252.1.1 
>> bzr-2.5b4            6349.1.1 bzr-2.5b5            6437.2.2 
>> upstream-2.3.0~beta1 ? upstream-2.3.0~beta3 ? 
>> upstream-2.3.0~beta2 ? 2.3.0-1              ? 2.3.0-3
>> ? 2.3.0-2              ? 2.3.0-5              ? 2.3.0-4
>> ? 2.5                  ? ... Why is this?
> These are tags that are set on revisions that are not in the
> branch history - and thus they have no revision number.
> 
> In this particular case, these are tags that are relevant from the
> Debian packaging. I'm not sure how they made it into bzr.dev.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Jelmer

Some of the really old ones were because back in the 0.? days we
weren't merging the release branches back to trunk, which we then
changed our mind on. I manually added a bunch of them once we started
supporting tags (prior to that I just tracked them manually).

John
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