[darcs-users] Question about pushing tags

[Jonathon McKitrick]

Suppose I have 3 repos: main, beta, and production.  I pull beta from
main, and production from beta.  When it is time to update the production
and beta sites, I would like to tag them appropriately:

~/production> darcs tag [here I would respond 'production dd/mm/yyyy']
~/beta> darcs tag  [here I would respond 'beta dd/mm/yyyy']

then, later:

~/beta> darcs pull  [to update beta to the latest development code]
~/production> darcs pull -t 'beta dd/mm/yyyy'  [to update production to
this month's tested beta code]

I have 2 questions:
1.  Since I would like to track production and beta tags in the main repo,
what is the correct sequence to push the tags from production to beta, and
then beta to main so that the dependencies will be correct?  In other
words, should I push the tag from production to beta, then tag beta, then
push both to main?  Or should I push the beta tag first, then push the
production tag to beta, then the production tag in beta back to main?

2.  If I pull an older production tag into the production working
directory, will I still have all other patches in that repo as well?  In
other words, if I want a clean repo of only the patches from a given tag,
I have to 'get' a new repo with that tag, correct?

-- 
Jonathon McKitrick
Reed Larkey Group