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Date:      Sat, 19 Jun 1999 19:02:13 -0700
From:      "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>
To:        Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: laying down tags 
Message-ID:  <69071.929844133@zippy.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 19 Jun 1999 18:39:05 EDT." <Pine.BSF.4.10.9906191832080.47432-100000@picnic.mat.net> 

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> I notice that in the last 6 months a change has occurred in how we use
> our cvs tools, in that there's a great increase in the usage of tags.

And that's a good thing.  Even though it adds some file bloat,
insufficient use of tags has made some painful events in the past more
painful than they had to be and it restricted other people from doing
certain types of experimental work.  We have been traditionally quite
tag-shy for the reasons you mention and it limits the full benefits of
CVS considerably to be so.

> I also notice that while I often want to see the last version of a
> particular port, I can not remember, ever, needing to see more than
> that.  The ports tree's profusion of 2-4 versions of the same piece of

That's why ports are rarely tagged.

In short, I disagree completely with you on the question of tags.

- Jordan


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