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Kelly F. Hickel wrote: > FYI, I've got a patch out for review on cvs 1.12 and 1.11 (which won't > go in until it's been tested on 1.12 for awhile). Sanity.sh tests > included. Still a bit of nit-picking going on for the tests, but no > challenges to the code (yet?). When I looked at cvsnt's branch code it > was the same as cvs, so you could get that patch and use it, although > you might want to wait until it's actually accepted. Branching and tagging on evs is intimately tied to the database structure... they're only similar in representation in the RCS file but that file is only used at a late stage in the process - eventually it'll go away altogether (for 3.x). Adding fast (ie. as in instant) tag to evs is really only a days work, since the database structure already has that capablility. You just translate the tag to a date before you pass it to RCS and everyone's happy. Branching is harder.. a magic branch works because it reserves space for the branch in the file when you create it.. it's a relatively trivial operation. Having a completely ficticious branch is one of those things that would touch rather more of the old RCS code than I'd like at this stage. OTOH it would be interesting to see what you came up with.. getting fast tag into the old cvs code is quite an achievement, given its limitations. Tony