How can one change the name of a tag?

Question

I have made a tag in mercurial:

hg tag release_123

Later on I found out that the name was wrong, it should be release_124. Is it pos

Answer 1

I would do it by removing the tag and then adding a new tag with the new name

The Mercurial tag wiki explains how to remove a tag:

How do I remove a tag?

Either by

• hg tag --remove tagname

(this being the nearest equivalent to cvs tag -d)

• adding tagname 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 to the end of .hgtags

• removing all references to tagname in .hgtags (but this might confuse the multiple-head tag collision resolution algorithm)