> > surely that's not too much process to cause more pain than the benefits > > are worth, neh? > > There is a lot of resistance to using tags and branches the way you > suggest Luke.
okay: i have to admit - i made a mistake in "oversimplifying" what i suggested [full branching of an entire sub-tree of code]. > I believe it has already received a -1 on this list at some > point, but I would have to look. There are a lot of people who would > agree with you that branching is a good thing, we just need to figure out > how to address the concerns that other people have. _full_ branching, especially for prolonged periods of time, is something that... well... let's just say that i have a _personal_ interest in letting other projects know what i think about the disadvantages of branching projects, and leave it at that. which is why i am advocating this usage of cvs tags that i have definitely not seen in day-to-day usage in any projects, anywhere. heck, i even heard of a company that purchased a commercial source control program because they didn't know that cvs could tag / branch individual files like this, and it had never occurred to them to do partial tagging. so, sorry for misleading people with the earlier post: i am most _definitely_ NOT, repeat, NOT, advocating the use of _full_ [i.e. recursive-into-directories] cvs tag / branching. full tag/branching gets you nowhere as you end up on _exactly_ the same slippery slope, but just under a different name, _and_ you have a full merging headache afterwards. the whole point of partial tagging is that the developer does twin-checkouts and day-to-day compilation tests. one of the cvs main and one of the combined-cvs-main-and-their-partial-tagged-files-that-they-are-working-on. i will be very surprised if anyone has proposed this before, and if they have, i would be interested to hear the reasons why it was not considered. luke ----- Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- "i want a world of dreams, run by near-sighted visionaries" "good. that's them sorted out. now, on _this_ world..."
