Re: Preventing mistakenly deleting branch tags

[Don Bockenfeld/FVI]

I'm a little shaky on some of this so please forgive me if I misspeak ...

Branch tags and revision tags were both built using the RCS tag facility.
I submit that it is not useful for CVS users to be aware that both kinds of
tags are implemented from the same lower-level construct (other than the
necessity to avoid revision tag names that have a magical appearance).
This is especially true now that CVS has unhooked itself from RCS.

How painful (tedious changes and backwards-incompatible) would it be for
the CVS command processor, and hence the user, to pretend that branch tags
and revision tags were fundamentally different things?  I'm not suggesting
changing the "back-end" implementation of the tags.

-Don Bockenfeld




                                                                                       
    
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Stephen Cameron writes:
>
> Since you're the only one that's giving a strong opinion, and your
opinoin
> seems to be that you don't like it, well, ok.  I know when I'm beat.

Actually, Derek indicated fairly strong support for the idea, and I like
it as well.  Branch tags are enough different from revision tags that I
think it makes good sense to treat them specially for all operations,
not just creation.

-Larry Jones





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