Subversion? (Re: HEADS UP: Importing csup into base)

Mark Linimon linimon at lonesome.com
Sat Mar 4 12:43:48 PST 2006


On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 05:26:29PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> A tag is actually a branch which the developers agree not to commit to;
> this may seem strange, but can actually be advantageous in the rare-but-
> not-unheard-of case where we need to "slide" a tag, since Subversion
> will maintain a history of that slide.

The case of sliding tags during a ports thaw is not even at all rare,
hardly even barely.

mcl


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