Use hg tags (to play nice with homebrew)

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Apparently re2 was removed from the main set of homebrew packages because it's 
what they refer to as "head-only" source code.  This makes things a little more 
difficult for Mac users installing software that depends on re2, such as 
google-js-test, as these packages are also being removed from homebrew.

https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/commit/3bd73e5e32439f7842023aaecba04dc344cdaf10

If there was just one tag in the re2, that would probably be enough to get it 
back into homebrew, and this would make life a bit easier for users of 
google-js-test on Mac a bit easier.

What do you think?

Original issue reported on code.google.com by ja...@wildlemur.com on 4 Jul 2013 at 12:39

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Can you point me at more information about what this means?

RE2 *is* head-only source code: I make sure head is always working, stable,
and the one you want to use.

What kind of tags should I add to pretend not to be head-only source code?
Should I make a release tag and move it every time I do a checkin?

Russ

Original comment by rsc@golang.org on 8 Jul 2013 at 7:23

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I'll see if I can get more information from the homebrew project.  Maybe I 
don't understand the problem fully.

Original comment by ja...@cedexis.com on 8 Jul 2013 at 9:09

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Here's the explanation given by the homebrew-headonly README.md:

https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-headonly/blob/master/README.md#why-is-head-
only-bad

However, I see that there are "source tree" downloads available for re2.  I 
wonder why these aren't sufficient.  Should they not be considered "stable 
tarballs"?

Original comment by ja...@cedexis.com on 9 Jul 2013 at 12:23

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Perhaps the formula that was sent in before was using hg instead of the 
tarballs?

Original comment by rsc@golang.org on 11 Jul 2013 at 8:21

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Original comment by rsc@golang.org on 10 Jan 2014 at 1:33

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