[Gnu-arch-users] Re: Descriptive tags

[Stig Brautaset]

On May 14 2004, Matthew wrote:
> I'm in the process of doing my first release out of an Arch repository, and
> coming up against "concept barriers" in my CVS->Arch mental transition.
> 
> With CVS, when making a release I'd tag all files at the current revision
> and say "that's my RELEASE_1_2_3", so I'd know that's release version 1.2.3.
> 
> >From what I can tell with arch, there's no real way of making up names as I
> go along for tags.  I've got the concept of commit branches and tag
> branches, and that's good as far as it goes, but I'd really like to be able
> to say to Arch directly "give me my X.Y.Z release".
> 
> It's probably a conceptual problem, as I said, in the "how we make releases"
> story, but I'm stumped, and I can't find anything in the Arch tutorial
> (which, up 'til now, has pretty much answered all my questions).
> 
> Any guidance greatly appreciated.

Check out configs:

http://regexps.srparish.net/tutorial-tla/multi-tree-projects.html

It says multi-tree projects, but you can use it for single-tree projects
for the benefit of arbitrary naming releases.

Stig

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