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Re: history of the tags (was: hitory of the tags)
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Mike Sutton |
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Re: history of the tags (was: hitory of the tags) |
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Mon, 4 Dec 2000 08:21:44 -0500 |
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On 12/02/00 15:40:16, James Youngman wrote:
> address@hidden (Larry Jones) writes:
>
> > I think it's better to leave the history stuff alone and let the few
> > people who care about recording tag information use taginfo to do it.
>
> I strongly disagree. We have to use external files to support the
> manual entering of data (who, when, what for, IDs of fixed bugs,
> recipient of release) that could be captured at "cvs tag" time.
>
> I would ideally like also to be able to restict how tags can be used
> (e.g. tags of a certain format can be used only in a certain way -- in
> my case, only on the top-level module and not directly on the modules
> it includes).
Restricting and verifing tags is what the purpose of taginfo is. So
you second argument contridicts your first. taginfo can verify your
tags and log them.
Mike Sutton | public class
SAIC | software_failure : management_failure
Beavercreek, OH |
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