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May I know what is the purpose of having .hgtags? Can I remove it? As it is not in .hg folder, and seems "pollute" my actual source code directory.
https://bz.mercurial-scm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1205
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$ hg tag --help
hg tag [-f] [-l] [-m TEXT] [-d DATE] [-u USER] [-r REV] NAME...
add one or more tags for the current or given revision
...
To facilitate version control, distribution, and merging of tags,
they are stored as a file named ".hgtags" which is managed
similarly to other project files and can be hand-edited if
necessary. The file '.hg/localtags' is used for local tags (not
shared among repositories).
...
From the issue you linked:
Mercurial currently has a very nice separation between things which are not version-controlled and things that are which this would ruin.
Because .hgtags is version-controlled, it is not in .hg. Compare to .hg/hgrc (in .hg; not version-controlled) and .hgignore (not in .hg; version-controlled).
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