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Merrill Cornish wrote: > All source control programs I'm familiar with have the ability to > attach a symbolic tag is a specific revision of a specific file. > Some of them also have the ability to attach a floating tag to a file. > > This tag automatically "floats" to the current HEAD revision as new > revisions are added without the user having to manually move the tag > to the HEAD revision after a commit. Floating tags have the effect > of grouping files together under a single symbolic name. > > For example, of all the test scripts we have in CVS, we are going to > have to send a subset of them to another office on the other side of > the world. I would like to designate the scripts we plan to send > with a floating tag. When the time comes, we extact using that > floating tag so the other office gets the then current HEAD revision > of all the designated files. We would probably use an ordinary tag > to record for us exactly which revisions of the designated files were > sent. Unless the set of files changes a lot it sounds like you should also be able to do this easily by using module definitions using the CVSROOT/modules or CVSROOT/modules2 files. That mechanism is more geared towards folders than files though but it could be made to work with files as well. Hope this helps. -- Oliver ---- ------------------ JID: ogiesen at jabber.org ICQ: 18777742 (http://wwp.icq.com/18777742)