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Hello, we are in the process of investigating the switch from an exclusive lock oriented Version Control System to CVS. Currently, we use tags very heavily to identify a healthy (at least compilable) version of our main stream software and assing about two tags a day. For this reason, anybody creating a tag must prevent everybody else from making a tag, to avoid situations where one tag is not already fully assigned to the correct revisions, but already used as a base for the second person creating another tag. I understand that using the edit/watch features and a defined process flow would minimize this risk. I have not found any discussion in books or this newsgroup that talk about such a problem. So my questions are: - Is the assignment of two tags at the same time not a problem when using CVS? If not, why not? - Is this problem somehow supported by CVS, possibly by using exclusive locks on a dedicated file? I am a newbie to CVS and have been exclusive lock oriented the last eight years :-). Maybe its the mind shift I havent been capable of managing.... Thanks Friedrich __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos: High-quality 4x6 digital prints for 25¢ http://photos.yahoo.com/ph/print_splash