[cvsnt] Re: "Floating" Tags?

[Terris Linenbach]

A branch?

"Merrill Cornish" <merrill.cornish at earthlink.net> wrote in message 
news:mailman.3241.1105151690.21094.cvsnt at cvsnt.org...
> All source control programs I'm familiar with have the ability to attach a 
> symbolic tag is a _specific_ revision of a specific file.  Some of them 
> also have the ability to attach a floating tag to a file.
>
> This tag automatically "floats" to the current HEAD revision as new 
> revisions are added without the user having to manually move the tag to 
> the HEAD revision after a commit.  Floating  tags have the effect of 
> grouping files together under a single symbolic name.
>
> For example, of all the test scripts we have in CVS, we are going to have 
> to send a subset of them to another office on the other side of the world. 
> I would like to designate the scripts we plan to send with a floating tag. 
> When the time comes, we extact using that floating tag so the other office 
> gets the then current HEAD revision of all the designated files.  We would 
> probably use an ordinary tag to record for us exactly which revisions of 
> the designated files were sent.
>
>>From what I can see neither Linux CVS nor CVSNT have this feature, at 
>>least under that name.
>
> If there a way in CVS to do the equivalent of a floating tag?
>
> Merrill