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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2004 10:18:13 -0500
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Subject: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: library-add w/o ancestor checking?
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>>> See, although foo--bar--0--patch-20's ancestor is usually
>>> foo--bar--0--patch-19, it doesn't *have* to be.  It could very well be
>>> tla--devo--1.3, or tlacontrib--devo--1.2, or anything else, because it's
>>> possible to tag into any version you like.
>> Yup.  I think it was a design mistake.
>> Stefan
>> 

> Well, it does let you have version controlled moving tags. So you can have
> a --dev branch and a --stable branch where stable is simply tags off
> of --dev.

There are plenty of other ways you could get this.
And it's often not enough or not great so you end up having to use some
other way anyway.

If you want to provide such a feature, you could do worse than start with
`configs'.


        Stefan


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