cvsup with tag=. on src and upgrading (in general)

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 09:20, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> "Brandon S. Allbery " KF8NH <allbery at ece.cmu.edu> writes:
> > No, it means that there are no tag values that are meaningful for
> > ports-all; you need to use tag=. (no tag, meaning retrieve the HEAD)
> 
> "tag=." is not "no tag", it is a magic tag which gives you the top of
> the trunk.  No tag at all gives you the version control files.

I was speaking in terms of CVS tags, not of cvsup's tag=; cvsup's
behavior with respect to tag= had already been described.

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