[cvsnt] Re: commit followed by a tag

Matt Schuckmann matthew_schuckmann at amat.com
Fri Feb 4 18:46:17 GMT 2005


Ok, whats a bug and commit identifer, how do you create them, how do you see
them search for them.
How do you use them to check out etc.
I've seen nothing in any documentation on these.

Matt S.

"Tony Hoyle" <tmh at nodomain.org> wrote in message
news:cu0evf$jtq$1 at paris.nodomain.org...
> Matt Schuckmann wrote:
> > If a developer knows that a set of files he's commiting is all related
to
> > one feature or fix or just wants to keep track of a set of changes
he/she is
> > making to the trunk (or a branch) (i.e. create a Change Set) why should
it
> > be a 2 step process to commit then tag. Every SCM system I've ever
worked
> > with before has had the capability to apply a tag (or label) at the time
of
> > commiting the file to the repository, it just makes sense.
>
> That's different from tags.  That's covered by bug and commit identifiers.
>
> Tags are for marking point releases not for tracking individual commits.
>
> Of course pullng out individual bugs as changesets has to be done with
> care - if you pull them out of order & they relate to common files you
> can get hard to fix conflicts.
>
> Tony





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