Reported by Unknown User, Nov 17, 2006

(This entry was imported from the savannah tracker, original 
location: https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/index.php?18317)

It would be nice if Monotone supported local tags like Mercurial and 
git do.  A local tag is one that is never sent to a remote database 
via sync or push.

One use of local tags is to keep track of "what changed since I 
last pulled", e.g.

$ mtn tag --local h: my_last_pull
$ mtn pull
$ mtn diff -r t:my_last_pull h:

As a side benefit, it would also make it easy to move the tag after 
pulling, i.e.

$ mtn db kill_tag_locally my_last_pull
$ mtn tag --local h: my_last_pull

Furthermore, it would be nice if it were possible to promote a local 
tag to a regular one.  Suggested command:

$ mtn publish_tag tag-name
# the tag will be sent when we next push

The reverse operation, "demoting" a tag, doesn't have any 
obvious benefits, and since it would only be possible before 
pushing, the implementation requires keeping track of the latest 
push in the database.  I don't think the functionality would be 
worth the effort.

monotone version:
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monotone 0.28 (révision de base : 
8c6ce7cb2ccd21290b435e042c2be4554ec6a048)
Running on          : Linux 2.6.17-2-686 #1 SMP Wed Sep 13 16:34:10 
UTC 2006 i686
C++ compiler        : GNU C++ version 4.0.4 20060507 (prerelease) 
(Debian 4.0.3-3)
C++ standard library: GNU libstdc++ version 20060507
Boost version       : 1_33_1
Changes since base revision:
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