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From: Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
To: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: FUNKY tags.
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 12:55:18 +1200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46a038f90508161755b43735c@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050816224332.GE26455@redhat.com>

On 8/17/05, Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> 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.

I am somewhat worried about cvsps getting confused by these floating
tags. Any help in teaching cvsps to ignore tags is welcome ;)


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  reply	other threads:[~2005-08-17  0:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-16 22:43 FUNKY tags Dave Jones
2005-08-17  0:55 ` Martin Langhoff [this message]
2005-08-17  2:47   ` Dave Jones
2005-08-17  5:59     ` Martin Langhoff

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