Re: Branches without a magic branch number

[Jim Hyslop]

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Rick Genter wrote:
> Perhaps there was a bug in CVS long ago that led to losing magic
> branch tags.

I just did a quick check of the NEWS file, and didn't see any mention of
any problems like this. I searched for 'magic' and 'branch', and went
back to 1992, rev 1.3 beta.

Jon Smirl wrote:
> Another idea is that the tags were somehow created locally and never 
> got pushed to the repository.

No. The action of creating a branch (i.e. applying a tag) affects only
the repository. Nothing is done to the local workspace. You'd know
immediately if the tag was not created.

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Jim Hyslop
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