How can I mark a group of changes/changesets in SVN, Hg, or Git
- by sylvanaar
I would like to mark an arbitrary group of commits/changesets with a label.
Commit 1 *Mark 1
Commit 2 *Mark 2
Commit 3
Commit 4 *Mark 1
Commit 5 *Mark 2
The goal is to easily locate all the changes for a specific mark, and to have that grouping persisted in the VCS directly, as opposed to some outside system like a bug tracking system.
The location and ordering of the marks needs to be arbitrary, and should be able to work with both committed/uncommitted and pushed/unpushed changes.
In SVN the best way I know is to just edit the commit notes and add some sort of special text that you can search for e.g. "**Mark 1". Or just to make a fake edit and commit it and use its commit note to list all the included revisions.
Is there a better solution for SVN? Are there equivalent or better solutions for Hg or Git?
