From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 14 12:42: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dt052n3e.san.rr.com (dt052n3e.san.rr.com [204.210.33.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9385637C068 for ; Fri, 14 Jul 2000 12:42:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from slave (doug@slave [10.0.0.1]) by dt052n3e.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA30531; Fri, 14 Jul 2000 12:40:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 12:40:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Barton X-Sender: doug@dt052n3e.san.rr.com To: Mark Ovens Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem cvsup'ing gnats In-Reply-To: <20000714181645.C237@parish> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 14 Jul 2000, Mark Ovens wrote: > > > How does all this work without a tag? > > > > The question you really want to ask yourself is, what do the tags mean, > > and why _would_ you specify a tag to slurp the gnats files? > > > > The answer to both your questions (I know you posed 3, but I don't > want hitting with a stick) Don't knock it till you've tried it. :) > is that I (mis)understood that if there was > no ``tag='' entry then ``tag=.'' was the default, i.e. src-all would > get you -current. The . tag for cvsup is just a handy reference to HEAD in cvs. You didn't really answer my question, which is what do the tags mean. Here's a hint for you. Where are the ,v files for the gnats collection? Doug -- "Live free or die" - State motto of my ancestral homeland, New Hampshire Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message