Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 23:46:27 -0700 From: "Kurt D. Zeilenga" <Kurt@OpenLDAP.Org> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net> Cc: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net> Subject: Re: laying down tags Message-ID: <376DDFC3.2ADEF3F0@OpenLDAP.Org> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9906202248590.47432-100000@picnic.mat.net>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Chuck Robey wrote: > > On Sun, 20 Jun 1999, Kurt D. Zeilenga wrote: > > > Tags can span time, span branches, and subsets of the repository. > > A tag may not represent a bulk commit. Tags are associated with > > specific revisions of files, not some arbitary date. > > Well, reading over this, it appears (though it's not clear) that you > agree that dates can do the job of tags. No, I said that under very limited circumstances, data specifiers can do the job of tags. The circumstances are quite limiting and require significant attention to details [ie: scouring of logs for the right date (and tag if commit was on a branch) to use]. If you want to cut down on space used by a tag, only tag subtrees. Kurt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?376DDFC3.2ADEF3F0>