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From: Don Lewis <Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com>
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Date: Fri, 21 Nov 1997 15:07:23 -0800
In-Reply-To: Richard Wackerbarth <rkw@dataplex.net>
       "Re: Version Resolution?" (Nov 21,  9:05am)
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Subject: Re: Version Resolution?
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On Nov 21,  9:05am, Richard Wackerbarth wrote:
} Subject: Re: Version Resolution?
} At 8:10 PM -0600 11/20/97, Don Lewis wrote:
} 
} >And if you don't do this, how do you get the right token if you export
} >a version from CVS using -r <branch_tag>:<date> to get something other
} >than the head of a branch?
} 
} You don't. The purpose of this hack is to distinguish between two
} different source trees which are extracted using exactly the same
} (head of a branch) tag, but at different times.
} 
} We should also be using a CVS/RCS macro to tell us what tag we used for
} the extraction. This information should also get included in the system
} identification.

Couldn't this solve the original problem as well?  If you are extracting
at the head of a branch, we've already got the branch tag info, so we
just need to set the date macro to the time of the extraction.