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Date:      Sat, 4 Mar 2006 20:40:30 +0100
From:      Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>
To:        freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Subversion? (Re: HEADS UP: Importing csup into base)
Message-ID:  <20060304194030.GA2826@tara.freenix.org>
In-Reply-To: <20060304174835.GA58184@thened.net>
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According to Alec Berryman:
> Branches and tags are both implemented in terms of an underlying "copy"
> operation. A copy takes up a small, constant amount of space. Any copy
> is a tag; and if you start committing on a copy, then it's a branch as
> well. (This does away with CVS's "branch-point tagging", by removing the
> distinction that made branch-point tags necessary in the first place.)"

But you don't know when (time or changeset based) you did branch something.
This is bad IMO.
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Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr
Darwin snuadh.freenix.org Kernel Version 7.9.0: Wed Mar 30 20:11:17 PST 2005



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