Re: permanent tag

[Paul Sander]

On Sep 26, 2005, at 1:07 PM, Jim Hyslop wrote:

> Steven W. Orr wrote:
> > It doesn't matter. Taginfo was created just for this purpose.
>
> On this list, I have found that many times, what people _think_ they 
> want and what they actually need are two different things.
>
> Julian, I read your response and I agree that this is one time you 
> really do want to prevent the tag from being moved. As Steven said, 
> you can use taginfo for this; see 
> http://ximbiot.com/cvs/manual/cvs-1.11.20/cvs_18.html#SEC179

I've used another approach to solve this problem, which is to check in 
lists of RCS file paths and version numbers.  These lists are easy to 
create, and using basic set algebra you can build a lot of simple tools 
that do wonderful things for your change control process.  Once checked 
in, the lists become immutable unless someone mucks with the contents 
of the RCS files directly.

In my case, processing the lists was much faster than using tags.  The 
reason for this is because all version numbers (save for the lists 
resulting from new computations) are known in advance, and CVS activity 
with its relatively high overhead could be optimized.

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