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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
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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

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