My first (ab)use of the CVS tags

Michael Schwendt bugs.michael at gmx.net
Thu Aug 4 01:34:46 UTC 2005


On Thu, 4 Aug 2005 00:29:44 +0200, Matthias Saou wrote:

> I manually tagged the FC-3 branch where the patch was now included as
> *-1_1_fc3 (where it previously was *-1_fc3) without actually changing the
> release nor anything else in the spec file, and asked plague to rebuild
> that new branch.

This is not really "abuse", since you created a new tag. It is somewhat
confusing use of a tag, since somebody who wanted to check out the *-1_fc3
revision, would get the package with the missing files. 

Moving the tag could be called "abuse" under certain circumstances.




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