[darcs-devel] [issue1000] darcs tag should prompt for strange tag names

[Eric Kow]

Eric Kow <eric.kow at gmail.com> added the comment:

On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 21:19:48 -0000, Tim Chevalier wrote:
> Anyway, I don't know how to obliterate a tag offhand. Of course I could go read
> the manual and find out how. But that's just extra cognitive load which could
> have been avoided if darcs had prompted me in the first place. Since creating a
> tag called "." is almost always going to be a mistake, I think it's best to
> write the code, which only has to be done once, but could potentially save time
> and effort for more than one user.

Thanks.  Well, for what it's worth, tags are patches like any other, and
can be obliterated with darcs obliterate.

I wonder what we can do to make this more apparent.

Anyway, it's there as a ProbablyEasy bug for any new developers to try
fixing.  I'm not too enthused, but I can see your point :-)

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