On Sun, Sep 7, 2014 at 7:00 PM, Andy Bradford <amb-fos...@bradfords.org>
wrote:

> There certainly is  an argument that there should be,  but how should it
> be  implemented? And  how  much of  the  underlying tags  implementation
> should it expose? For example, what if I want the tag to not be symbolic
> and propagating?
>

In libfossil i went with the easy route: if the first character is one of
+/-/*, then treat it as the appropriate tag type. i "cannot imagine" that
any "sensible person" would use such characters as the first character of a
tag, but... stranger things have happened.


> Or maybe people who want more than a symbolic tag just use fossil tag?
>

+1 to that. The ability to add them at commit-time is a bit of a "bonus
points" feature, IMO.


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