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Tags in Mercurial

Note: If you are migrating from ["CVS"], please {anchorlink: CvsConcepts#tags read this discussion of CVS tags} before you continue.

A tag is a symbolic identifier for a ["ChangeSet"].

["Mercurial"] has two kinds of tag.

Alocal tag is a convenience identifier that is not revision controlled, does not propagate with other changes, and lives in the .hg/hgrc file in a repository.
A "regular" tag (with no special specifier)is revision controlled,does propagate with other changes, and lives in the .hgtags file in a repository.

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-   * * A''local'' tag is a convenience identifier that is not revision controlled, does not propagate with other changes, and lives in the {{{.hg/hgrc}}} file in a repository.
   * * A "regular" tag (with no special specifier)''is'' revision controlled,''does'' propagate with other changes, and lives in the {{{.hgtags}}} file in a repository.
+ * A''local'' tag is a convenience identifier that is not revision controlled, does not propagate with other changes, and lives in the {{{.hg/hgrc}}} file in a repository.
 * A "regular" tag (with no special specifier)''is'' revision controlled,''does'' propagate with other changes, and lives in the {{{.hgtags}}} file in a repository.