make force-tag gone

Simo Sorce ssorce at redhat.com
Fri Sep 12 15:46:23 UTC 2008


On Fri, 2008-09-12 at 09:31 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-09-12 at 09:14 +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > > Only CVS needs a revision number per file, and that's
> > > exactly what the Entries file contains.
> > 
> > Hmm, wouldn't checkout by date do the trick for cvs?
> 
> Yes, but that's a bit harder to reconstruct after the fact.  There's a
> potential skew between the notions of "time" between the kojid and the
> cvs server; the latter is authoritative, but the former is what gets
> recorded in the build output.
> 
> Whereas cvs gives you the Entries file for free, so you might as well
> just save it.

That and then letting koji set the tag, this way we do not have to mess
with tags at all (or we can reserve tags that start with koji- so that
devs can't change them while letting devs have their own custom tags if
they need them).

Simo.

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