Comment 19 for bug 309682

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Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer) wrote : Re: [Bug 309682] Re: tags are copied but their revisions may not be

On Thu, 2011-03-31 at 04:46 +0000, John A Meinel wrote:
> > I don't know the bzr-hg internals, but conceptually it doesn't seem like
> >> we would have to know all the tags up front.
> > It's trivial to do it like that, it's doing it in a way that doesn't
> > hurt performance that worries me. Doing a second fetch requires new
> > analysis of what revisions are present locally versus remotely and it
> > might require a new http connection to be opened.
> >
> > If there is a tag that points at a ghost remotely then each fetch from
> > the remote host will require an extra graph inspection and fetch we
> > don't do at the moment.
> Except hg can't have ghosts...
I mean ghosts as in tags that reference revisions that are not present,
which it will deal with just fine (and which can be created if there are
tags for revisions not in the tips ancestry)

Cheers,

Jelmer