[cvsnt] newbie branch/merge question

[Nick Duane]

Good.  So what happens when I checkout that tag and then make a change and 
commit?  Am I committing to the trunk or the branch?

(... some time going by before I hit send while I'm thinking about this and 
remembering someone in a reply to one of my posts said you can only commit 
on branches not on tags...)

So I guess if you need a certain release because you need to add more fixes 
to it, then you need to checkout that branch at that specific release.  But 
I can't see you needing a specific tag of a branch unless:

1. You just need to build it.
2. You intend to create a new branch at that specific tag.

I can't see you needing the tag to make bug fixes in that branch since you 
would always apply bug fixes at the tip.

Thanks,
Nick

"Tony Hoyle" <tony.hoyle at march-hare.com> wrote in message 
news:ebpoc1$bql$1 at paris.nodomain.org...
> Nick Duane wrote:
>> Can I set a tag on a branch and have that tag visible without having to 
>> specify that branch?  What I mean is let's say I fix all the bugs in the 
>> branch and tag it as t-3-8-rtm.  Does someone need to know the branch if 
>> they want to get this release or can they just specify the tag and get 
>> that release?
>
> A tag references a specific revision which may or may not be on a branch, 
> so when you checkout t-3-8-rtm you get that exact revision wherever it 
> came from.
>
> Basically, checking out a tag will always get you exactly the same file 
> that you tagged, no matter what has happened since.
>
> Tony