CVS tags

[Hans-Peter Nilsson]

On Sun, 12 Oct 2003, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> 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.

FWIW, that seems better than a moving tag: you can then rely on
the tag being stable; it might be gone but it doesn't suddenly
change contents (for various values of "sudden").

brgds, H-P