Branches in CVS repository?

[Andrew Cagney]

Richard Earnshaw wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 20:28, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> 
>>>Fair enough - if I am the only one who thinks that these dates would be 
>>>helpful then I am not going to insist on them.
>>
>>Yes, agreed, the date is very helpful (it should be YYYYMMDD).  It's 
>>especially helpful when identifying exact branch and merge points - the 
>>nature of cvs is such that "cvs log" is not exact. 
>>Andrew
> 
> 
> I'll say it again.  I really, *really*, hate dates in this context. 

to which I wrote:

 >> Besides, there's
 >>nothing to stop the person cutting the branch from using "cvs admin" to
 >>create a shorter alias for the currently active longer tag.

have a nice day,
Andrew