Re: Tags - Symbolic names instead of Directory copy?

On Wed, 22 May 2013 19:33:33 +0000, David Chapman wrote:
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>
> Usually only the build system (or developers trying to fix a specific
> bug) will check out a tag. Developers modifying code would not check
> out tags.

Unless they are using externals. Letting external point to a non-tag
thing isn't good idea (because the tags you make of your project
wouldn't fix the externals to a tagged version).

And then you run into some workflow turbulence when you start modifying
within the externals.

Andreas

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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@*.org>
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 07:29:21 -0800