[cvsnt] Feature request: Commitable tags

Tuomas Huhtanen tuomas.huhtanen at vertex.fi
Mon Apr 28 09:15:06 BST 2003


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Max Bowsher wrote:
> OK, so a writable tag is just a branch tag, and you want the ability to
> slide the branchpoint forward along its parent branch, provided no revisions
> have been comitted on the branch yet?
> 
> Does this actually gain you anything except slightly smaller repository
> files?

Not really. writable tag is more like non branch tag. It always requires 
a branch underneath. The repository file size is not the goal of this 
scheme, but flexibly created branches. And flexibly maintained releases. 
And flexibly maintained (software)modules.

Tuomas Huhtanen

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