From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dave Jones Subject: Re: FUNKY tags. Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 22:47:18 -0400 Message-ID: <20050817024718.GA11734@redhat.com> References: <20050816224332.GE26455@redhat.com> <46a038f90508161755b43735c@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Aug 17 04:47:50 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E5Dxq-0001N1-TI for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 17 Aug 2005 04:47:39 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750791AbVHQCrV (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Aug 2005 22:47:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750800AbVHQCrV (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Aug 2005 22:47:21 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:9628 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750791AbVHQCrU (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Aug 2005 22:47:20 -0400 Received: from int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (int-mx1.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.254]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j7H2lJaG030530; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 22:47:19 -0400 Received: from devserv.devel.redhat.com (devserv.devel.redhat.com [172.16.58.1]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id j7H2lJV19130; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 22:47:19 -0400 Received: from nwo.kernelslacker.org (vpn50-3.rdu.redhat.com [172.16.50.3]) by devserv.devel.redhat.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j7H2lIhv010668; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 22:47:19 -0400 Received: from nwo.kernelslacker.org (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by nwo.kernelslacker.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7H2lIXe020873; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 22:47:18 -0400 Received: (from davej@localhost) by nwo.kernelslacker.org (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id j7H2lIq0020872; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 22:47:18 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: nwo.kernelslacker.org: davej set sender to davej@redhat.com using -f To: Martin Langhoff Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <46a038f90508161755b43735c@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 12:55:18PM +1200, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On 8/17/05, Dave Jones wrote: > > I've no idea what I did when I tagged those trees, but according > > to a google search, cvsps does that when it find patchsets which > > are chronologically (and thus by patchset id) earlier than the tag, > > but are tagwise after. Spooky. > > It's probably tags that were moved around with "cvs tag -F footag". > When using cvs in with a dovetail strategy, people tend to merge > BRANCH->HEAD and use a floating tag to mark how far it's been merged > in. In my case, at least the most recent of those cvs tag operations was just a 'cvs tag x86info-1_14'. Nothing fancy. I'm fairly sure there was nothing fancy about the earlier instance either. So sure in fact, I had to look up that -F flag in the man page to find out what it did. x86info cvs shouldn't even have any branches, so theres no strange head merging going on. > I am somewhat worried about cvsps getting confused by these floating > tags. Any help in teaching cvsps to ignore tags is welcome ;) If you're curious, its a sourceforge project at cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/x86info module is 'x86info'. Both x86info-1_14 and x86info-1_6 are marked as funky for reasons I'm unaware. Dave