Conflict when try to delete Mercurial tag

Question

I have stable tag in my Mercurial repository, and I was able to tag new stable releases of code, and everything worked perfect.

But we decided to have stable branch, which will contain only stable code, and I created this branch, but now I have problem to switch to Hg "stable" branch and not to Hg "stable" tag.

Therefore, because stable tags will not be used anymore, I thought to delete those tags using command: hg tag --remove stable

But I got warning:

hg tag --remove stable warning: tag stable conflicts with existing branch name .hgtags

How can I resolve this weird problem? Is it reccomanded to manually edit .hgtags file?

Thanks!

Answer 1

You can manually edit the .hgtags file. It's just another file in the repository. If you screw it up you can just re-edit it and re-commit it.