Re: gcc_latest_snapshot CVS tag (was: gcc-ss-20030526 is now available)

[Geoff Keating <geoffk at geoffk dot org>]

Kelley Cook <kcook34@ford.com> writes:

> Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> > On Mon, 26 May 2003 gccadmin@gcc.gnu.org wrote:
> >> The "gcc_latest_snapshot" tag has been moved.  You can use
> >> cvs update -rgcc_latest_snapshot to update your CVS tree to the latest
> >> official snapshot.
> > Does anyone use this tag and really, really need it?
> > I'd like to get rid of it, to ease the implementation of snapshots
> > from
> > both mainline and the current release branch.
> 
> More to the point, does *anybody* use the gcc_ss_yyyymmdd cvstags?
> All those snapshot tags present major clutter in CVS web pages.
> 
> A "CVS -d snapshot_date" will accomplish the same thing, if anybody
> had a reason to get a specific snapshot.

-D doesn't work so well on branches.

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- Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org>