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From: Erich <erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com>
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Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Chris Rees <crees@freebsd.org>,
	Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>,
	"O. Hartmann" <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de>,
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Subject: Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD?
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Hi,

On 05 June 2012 1:09:50 Mark Linimon wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 01:00:45PM +0700, Erich wrote:
> > All of these, with the exception of HEAD (which is always a valid tag),
> > only apply to the src/ tree. The ports/, doc/, and www/ trees are not
> > branched.
> 
> If you create a branch, you must create a tag for that branch.
> 
> However, you can create a tag without creating a branch.  That is what
> is done for the ports tree.
> 
I found now the location where this information is missing for beginners.

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-using.html

I simply cannot believe that beginners would expect this information to find this in the section for updating the kernel.

Erich