Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com> writes:
| [ gcc-patches -> gcc ]
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| On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, Michael Matz wrote:
| > I just committed the result of merging HEAD at tag
ra-merge-20031009 with
| > this branch.
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| Is there any reason y'all need to add tags to mainline for such
merges,
| or could you simply use the -D2003-10-10 option of CVS as well?
It think it is essentially for convenience in merging.
If you add a tag, you don't need to remember exactly the date + hour
-- and the hour can vary from one country to the other.
Also, I dot seem to recall that merging between two points works with
anything other than revision numbers, tags or branch points.