[cvsnt] Re: vendor branch and import problem

[Tony Hoyle]

On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 16:40:59 +0100, Oliver Giesen <ogware at gmx.net>
wrote:

>Tony Hoyle wrote:
>
>> Why?  I don't see that it changes the functionality at all if you
>> don't reuse tags. 
>
>Branches. We are talking about branches. What good is a branch if I am 
>not allowed to commit more than one revision to it??? Cos that's what 
>you're effectively saying if you want to forbid reusing Vendor branches 
>for subsequent Imports...

Vendor tags aren't really branches... you don't normally commit to
them.  Anyway, we're not talking about committing a new revision to a
branch - that's not what import does.  It actually overwrites the
existing branch with a completely new one, creating an orphan branch
if you've changed any revisions on it (which you never would have
normally... which is why they're really tags).

Tony