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Date:      Sat, 4 Mar 2006 14:43:47 -0600
From:      linimon@lonesome.com (Mark Linimon)
To:        Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
Cc:        arch@freebsd.org, pfgshield-freebsd@yahoo.com, Duane Whitty <duane@greenmeadow.ca>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Subversion? (Re: HEADS UP: Importing csup into base)
Message-ID:  <20060304204347.GA27362@soaustin.net>
In-Reply-To: <864q2erxai.fsf@xps.des.no>
References:  <20060304141957.14716.qmail@web32705.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <200603041155.33813.duane@greenmeadow.ca> <864q2erxai.fsf@xps.des.no>

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On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 05:26:29PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> A tag is actually a branch which the developers agree not to commit to;
> this may seem strange, but can actually be advantageous in the rare-but-
> not-unheard-of case where we need to "slide" a tag, since Subversion
> will maintain a history of that slide.

The case of sliding tags during a ports thaw is not even at all rare,
hardly even barely.

mcl



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