CVS tags (was: [new-ra] merge with head)

[Hans-Peter Nilsson]

On Sun, 12 Oct 2003, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Oct 2003, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
> >> 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
>
> So? Add the value of the -D tag to the ChangeLog on the branch, for
> example (or, as tree-ssa folks do it, to the version string on the
> branch).

IIRC, if you merge against anything other than a tag you'll lose
track of removed files.  (I hope to be corrected.)

brgds, H-P