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A branch? "Merrill Cornish" <merrill.cornish at earthlink.net> wrote in message news:mailman.3241.1105151690.21094.cvsnt at cvsnt.org... > All source control programs I'm familiar with have the ability to attach a > symbolic tag is a _specific_ revision of a specific file. Some of them > also have the ability to attach a floating tag to a file. > > This tag automatically "floats" to the current HEAD revision as new > revisions are added without the user having to manually move the tag to > the HEAD revision after a commit. Floating tags have the effect of > grouping files together under a single symbolic name. > > For example, of all the test scripts we have in CVS, we are going to have > to send a subset of them to another office on the other side of the world. > I would like to designate the scripts we plan to send with a floating tag. > When the time comes, we extact using that floating tag so the other office > gets the then current HEAD revision of all the designated files. We would > probably use an ordinary tag to record for us exactly which revisions of > the designated files were sent. > >>From what I can see neither Linux CVS nor CVSNT have this feature, at >>least under that name. > > If there a way in CVS to do the equivalent of a floating tag? > > Merrill