# HG changeset patch
# User Matt Harbison <matt_harbison@yahoo.com>
# Date 1395710860 14400
# Node ID c57c9cece64514e09a5f58b8803c01a6c420e286
# Parent  e5641536e4d509b2dc5fab783344f86ea61b17c2
revset: document the regular expression support for tag(name)

This has been supported since 20f55613fb2a, in 2.3.

diff -r e5641536e4d5 -r c57c9cece645 mercurial/revset.py
--- a/mercurial/revset.py	Thu Mar 20 19:39:05 2014 -0700
+++ b/mercurial/revset.py	Mon Mar 24 21:27:40 2014 -0400
@@ -1500,6 +1500,10 @@
 def tag(repo, subset, x):
     """``tag([name])``
     The specified tag by name, or all tagged revisions if no name is given.
+
+    If `name` starts with `re:`, the remainder of the name is treated as
+    a regular expression. To match a tag that actually starts with `re:`,
+    use the prefix `literal:`.
     """
     # i18n: "tag" is a keyword
     args = getargs(x, 0, 1, _("tag takes one or no arguments"))