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Tony Hoyle wrote: > On Mon, 28 Apr 2003 15:47:10 +0300, Tuomas Huhtanen > <tuomas.huhtanen at vertex.fi> wrote: > >> But as Tony suggested, the -f might work for you in this case. The only >> thing is that once you have checked it out with some branch, it stays >> there unless you take a clean checkout again. So if for example you have >> created a branched document, check it out, then later modify the main >> document so that there is no need for the branch doc, the -f scheme >> would not work. The writable tag would recover that situation just fine. > > No it wouldn't - once you've branched you can't 'un branch' because that > would be changing history. You can't unbranch, but you can set the writable tag back to the parent branch. >> One other situation where the -f would not be sufficient is that if you >> need multiple levels of branches. Again, the writable tags would handle >> that without a problem. > > Similarly they wouldn't - they would have to point to a single branch > revision, which means you'd need different tags for each branch. Yes, but you would *want* different tags for each branch anyway, so that's not a problem. Max.