[Gnu-arch-users] tagline considered harmful?

[Maksim Lin]

Having read in the tla docs that tagline is the recommended tagging 
method, I'm wondering what the compelling reasons for using it are?
From my point of view it seesm quite limiting in that:
- It won't work with binary files (eg. my apps icons or 3rd party 
library files which I want to version manage as well as my src code)
- It won't work for things like xml-type documents that are produced by 
many 3rd party apps (eg. open office docs) where it may be very 
difficult or impossibel to insert a tagline in the first or last 1kb
- It makes it very easy (though admittedly not epecially likely) for 
anyone editing the file to accidently stuff up the tagline
- It means that I need some mechanism to come up with unique taglines 
(unless I use the obvious orig full pathname of the file technique 
discussed on the list previously)

Against all this I see almost no disadvantages to using the explicit 
method and all the advantages of the above, except for the small 
inconvienience of having to remember to do 'tla add ...' and as a 
perforce user (at work) I've pretty much learnt to do that as par for 
the course.
So am I missing something about using taglines?

Maks.