[cvsnt] Re: Latest updates

Tony Hoyle tmh at nodomain.org
Mon Aug 23 21:24:36 BST 2004


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Oliver Giesen wrote:
>>A couple of things I forgot:
>>
>>* Set tag=tag.  Allows you to alias one tag to another, eg.
>>cvs tag -Fr release_1_0_5 current_release
> 
> 
> Hmm, what's new about that? Didn't that always work already? Or is it that
> current_release will indeed point to the tag itself instead of the revision

It was half there but needed support for branches. You can now tag=tag 
branches too, using the -A option to tag.  I did some work with the 
corner cases that didn't fail gracefully (in fact when I first tried it 
to see if it worked it actually fell over...).

Tony





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