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Re: Branches in CVS repository?

Hi Guys,

> Richard Earnshaw wrote: 

Personally, I find the use of dates awkward.  At any time after the
initial creation point the date is not much better than a random number,
and remembering what set of changes is associate with what date is
nigh-on impossible.

I actually find them useful. Admittedly this is in the context of GCC, and RedHat supporting its customers, but if I see a branch that is say "CUSTOMER_FOO-gcc-990101" then I think "oh dear that is a very old branch, why haven't they upgraded ?", whereas if I see "CUSTOMER_BAR-gcc-050101" I think "hmm, they are using the latest sources and they still find bugs - this is going to be hard". (Not that I am a pessimist or anything").

Cheers
  Nick

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