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Date:      14 Jun 2003 09:23:01 -0400
From:      "Brandon S. Allbery " KF8NH <allbery@ece.cmu.edu>
To:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
Cc:        peter lageotakes <plageotakes@yahoo.com>
Subject:   Re: cvsup with tag=. on src and upgrading (in general)
Message-ID:  <1055596981.57938.21.camel@rushlight.kf8nh.apk.net>
In-Reply-To: <xzpwufo6bjr.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 09:20, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> "Brandon S. Allbery " KF8NH <allbery@ece.cmu.edu> writes:
> > No, it means that there are no tag values that are meaningful for
> > ports-all; you need to use tag=. (no tag, meaning retrieve the HEAD)
> 
> "tag=." is not "no tag", it is a magic tag which gives you the top of
> the trunk.  No tag at all gives you the version control files.

I was speaking in terms of CVS tags, not of cvsup's tag=; cvsup's
behavior with respect to tag= had already been described.

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brandon s allbery [openafs/solaris/japh/freebsd] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net
system administrator [linux/heimdal/too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu
electrical and computer engineering                              KF8NH
carnegie mellon university  [better check the oblivious first -ke6sls]



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