[cvsnt] Feature request: Commitable tags

[Tony Hoyle]

On Mon, 28 Apr 2003 15:47:10 +0300, Tuomas Huhtanen
<tuomas.huhtanen at vertex.fi> wrote:


>But as Tony suggested, the -f might work for you in this case. The only 
>thing is that once you have checked it out with some branch, it stays 
>there unless you take a clean checkout again. So if for example you have 
>  created a branched document, check it out, then later modify the main 
>document so that there is no need for the branch doc, the -f scheme 
>would not work. The writable tag would recover that situation just fine.

No it wouldn't - once you've branched you can't 'un branch' because that would
be changing history.

>One other situation where the -f would not be sufficient is that if you 
>need multiple levels of branches. Again, the writable tags would handle 
>that without a problem.

Similarly they wouldn't - they would have to point to a single branch
revision, which means you'd need different tags for each branch.

Tony