On Sat, 4 Jan 2003, Tom Lane wrote:

> "Marc G. Fournier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I never considered tag'ng for minor releases as having any importance,
> > since the tarball's themselves provide the 'tag' ... branches give us the
> > ability to back-patch, but tag's don't provide us anything ... do they?
>
> Well, a tag makes it feasible for someone else to recreate the tarball,
> given access to the CVS server.  Dunno how important that is in the real
> world --- but I have seen requests before for us to tag release points.

FWIW, in the real world, a release doesn't happen if it's not taqged.


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