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[Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] cpython (2.6): Added tag v2.6.8rc2 for changeset bd9e1a02e3e3

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Sun Mar 18 05:13:10 CET 2012 
On Mar 17, 2012, at 07:15 PM, Éric Araujo wrote:

>Note that duplicate entries in .hgtags (when a tag was redone) should
>not be “cleaned up”: the presence of the old changeset hash greatly
>helps conflict resolution.  (If someone pulled the repo with the old tag
>and later pulls and updates, then they don’t have to find out which hash
>is the right tag, they just accept all changes from the updated file
>into their local file.)

But if someone wants to grab the 2.6.8rc2 tag, which changeset do they get?  I
guess the last one... maybe?

>This problem in the future can be avoided by merging all changesets from
>X.Y to X.Y+1, not null-merging, unless I misunderstand something.

Except in this case, there's probably not much useful in the 2.6.8 changes
that are appropriate for 2.7.

-Barry
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