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Re: Tag reorg
"Giovanni Bajo" <giovannibajo@libero.it> writes:
| Joseph S. Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com> wrote:
|
| >> You can always see them with the url@rev syntax
| >>
| >> ie
| >> svn ls svn://gcc.gnu.org/svn/gcc/branches@105944
| >
| > Which requires remembering an arbitrary revision number (i.e., making
| > life *harder* not *easier* for people looking for that branch)
| > rather than a more meaningful branch name.
|
| And?
And meaningful name matters.
I would hate to see the fanatism taken to the point where just because
you can do svn bar | baz fhu means we should not provide means for
not-so-machine-mimicing humans.
-- Gaby