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Re: CVS tags
Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com> writes:
> On Sun, 12 Oct 2003, Hans-Peter Nilsson wrote:
>> IIRC, if you merge against anything other than a tag you'll lose
>> track of removed files. (I hope to be corrected.)
>
> Hmm, if that's indeed the case, we could avoid the "exploding number
> of tags" syndrome by keeping a _moving_ tag for such merges, much like
> the gcc_latest_snapshot tag we used to have:
We could also just get rid of old merge tags from time to time. That has
the advantage that we still can keep a few merge tags for testing purpose.
Andreas.
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