Welcome to Software Development on Codidact!
Will you help us build our independent community of developers helping developers? We're small and trying to grow. We welcome questions about all aspects of software development, from design to code to QA and more. Got questions? Got answers? Got code you'd like someone to review? Please join us.
Post History
On the old sites, if you wanted to tag something with [sql] and [mysql] that required two tags. However, because we have hierarchal tags where [mysql] is a child of [sql] you only need to tag it wi...
Question
discussion
#1: Initial revision
by
Charlie Brumbaugh
·
2020-11-06T02:39:23Z (about 4 years ago)
What is the point of tagging a question with both a parent and a child tag?
On the old sites, if you wanted to tag something with [sql] and [mysql] that required two tags. However, because we have hierarchal tags where [mysql] is a child of [sql] you only need to tag it with [mysql] to have it come up in the search for the [sql] tag. I am wondering what the use case here would be for tagging it with both as it will show up in the search by tag for both [sql] and [mysql] either way. Personally, I think it would be cleaner if only one tag from a grandparent->parent->child relationship was used on a question.