From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jun 20 19: 3: 3 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from cantor.boolean.net (cantor.boolean.net [209.133.111.73]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D31215283 for ; Sun, 20 Jun 1999 19:02:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Kurt@OpenLDAP.Org) Received: from gypsy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cantor.boolean.net (8.9.2/8.9.1) with SMTP id CAA65750; Mon, 21 Jun 1999 02:03:40 GMT (envelope-from Kurt@OpenLDAP.Org) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19990620185538.009714e0@localhost> X-Sender: guru@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 18:55:38 -0700 To: Chuck Robey From: "Kurt D. Zeilenga" Subject: Re: laying down tags Cc: "Daniel O'Connor" , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Alfred Perlstein In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Tags can span time, span branches, and subsets of the repository. A tag may not represent a bulk commit. Tags are associated with specific revisions of files, not some arbitary date. Assuming that the tag represents a bulk commit over a subtree of a single branch of the repository, it may be possible to use a date specifier instead. However, you need to know the exact date required for the operation. On a busy repository, you may have to resort to logs to determine what date to use. Use of date specifiers, especially those gleamed off of local clocks, are error prone. You should take advantage of the power of CVS, use tags! As far as disk space, disk space is cheap. Time isn't. I, for one, would love to see more CVS branches and tag use in FreeBSD. I would love to see committer using private branches. It's much easier for me to test developments if I can just cvs checkout the work in progress. I look forward to the day that I can 'rm /usr/bin/patch'. (note: patch is a lovely, useful tool; but updating source via patches when you have CVS is arcane). Kurt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message