Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: taglines vs explicit

[Andrew Suffield]

On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 06:23:02PM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 18:15, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> > >>>>> "Robert" == Robert Anderson <address@hidden> writes:
> > While both of them have their points, the last thing
> > (eg) Linus wants to see is Andrea using strictly explicit, Miles using
> > taglines with uuidgen taglines, and Pau using tagline with descriptive
> > taglines, which is a distinct possibility if the kernel were to use
> > tagline.
> 
> You seem to have fallen into the same conflation trap.
> 
> explicit suffers from -exactly- the same sample problem you propose for
> tagline.
> 
> tagging method might be called 'tag-location'. Does that help clear it
> up?

Rephrasing it in terms of a practical example, Stephen's point is one
of the primary reasons why I use explicit instead of tagline for my own 
projects:

If people send me changesets, I want those changesets to contain
explicit tags, not embedded tags.

Using explicit makes this point to people in a neatly effective
manner.

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