info-cvs
[Top][All Lists]
Advanced

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: tag list


From: Larry Jones
Subject: Re: tag list
Date: Sat, 25 May 2002 14:12:58 -0400 (EDT)

Quick Solutions writes:
> 
> "cvs rlog" doesn't distinguish tags from branch. They both are referred
> as symbolic names. I'd use "cvs status -v" for this purpose.

A tag (aka symbolic name) can be either a branch tag or a revision tag
-- they're both tags.  You can tell if a tag is a branch tag or not by
looking at the number of components: revision tags have an even number
of components (e.g., 1.10, 1.1.1.1), branch tags have an odd number
(e.g., 1, 1.1.1).

-Larry Jones

Nobody knows how to pamper like a Mom. -- Calvin



reply via email to

[Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread]