Re: Tag locking change

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Wednesday, October 9, 2002 at 11:26:08 (-0400), Larry Jones wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: Tag locking change
>
> Greg A. Woods writes:
> > 
> > I think the issue is some of us don't want 'cvs rtag' to "work" when the
> > intent is to tag the head of a branch, especially not with the new more
> > per-directory-only locking scheme
> 
> Just to reemphasize, the per-directory locking scheme is not "new", it's
> what all versions of CVS prior to 1.11.1 used.  The change to locking
> the entire tree in CVS 1.11.1 was a stop-gap fix for a serious bug that
> could cause data loss.

Yes, of course.  Sorry about that -- I didn't mean to confuse 1.11.1
with older versions!  :-)

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