Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 08:37:31 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> Cc: re@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: -CURRENT Feature Slush is OVER Message-ID: <20020317083731.B10393@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10203170211200.50277-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu>; from andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu on Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 02:13:16AM -0800 References: <20020317002235.B3875@dragon.nuxi.com> <Pine.BSF.4.10.10203170211200.50277-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu>
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On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 02:13:16AM -0800, Annelise Anderson wrote: > > If a tag was laid down can't it be retrieved indefinitely? A non-branching > tag? What am I missing? The tag will create a point in time in the CVS repository that cannot be ever changed. This is a restriction that we've always assumed does not exist on the "HEAD" until a .0 release. We have always been free to do repository reorganizing until the .0 release. A tag that should always produce the same thing, breaks our SOP[*] and was one of the concerns of cvs@freebsd.org. -- David [*] standard operating procedure To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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