This distinction is really between plain tags versus branch tags; sticky tags is just a user action that is "applied" to a plain/branch tag; kind of like the distinction between Republican politician versus Democrat politician and a user action that make one a corrupt Republican/Democrat politician. A tag is a symbolic name that represents a specific version of a file. Your main.c at version 1.10 can be tagged as release_1; later commits may increment main.c up to 1.20. However, you may want to see if a bug/feature was present in release_1 of the main.c file, so you do a "sticky update" to the release_1 tag; you are then "stickied" to the release_1 tag; which means that unless you clear/reset the stickiness, your CVS actions will apply only to the files tagged with release_1. In most cases, sticky updates are applied to branch tags. Branch tags are a special form of tags that branches or forks a development line. For instance, your main.c at 1.10 has a serious bug that needs to be fixed and sent out to clients; however, new developments from 1.11 onwards are not stable enough to be included in the patch that needs to be sent out to clients: you have to make the fix to 1.10 or release_1 of main.c. What you do in this case is to branch (let's call the branch tag patch_1) main.c at 1.10 so that the successor version is both the existing 1.11 as well as 1.10.2.1 (I think that's the version number that CVS will create.) Now, you can sticky update to patch_1, and thereafter your will be stuck onto the patch_1 development line unless you specifically clear/reset your tag which has become stickied onto patch_1. ...Ru -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 15, 2000 8:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Sticky tags vs tags Can someone please email me back at [EMAIL PROTECTED] and tell me Sticky tags vs tags in CVS for dummy. Should I use tags or Sticky tags?? _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs