branching

[Keith Seitz]

On Thu, 19 Sep 2002, Kevin Buettner wrote:

> Do you create a new tag for each merge?

Yes:
        kseitz_interps-20020829-merge   (revision: 1.69)
        kseitz_interps-20020809-merge   (revision: 1.66)
        kseitz_interps-20020722-merge   (revision: 1.65)
        kseitz_interps-20020619-merge   (revision: 1.61)
        kseitz_interps-20020528-branch  (branch: 1.59.4)
        kseitz_interps-20020528-branchpoint     (revision: 1.59)

> Do you remove old tags that are no longer useful?

Can this be done? I've never heard of anyone removing a tag. Hmm, indeed:

$ cvs rtag --help
[snip]
        -d      Delete the given tag.
[snip]

Wow. I guess I should get rid of the older tags (or use the -F option to 
move a tag).

Keith