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Re: Preventing mistakenly deleting branch tags
From: |
Larry Jones |
Subject: |
Re: Preventing mistakenly deleting branch tags |
Date: |
Mon, 4 Jun 2001 16:28:24 -0400 (EDT) |
Donald Sharp writes:
>
> On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 01:08:03PM -0700, Stephen Cameron wrote:
> >
> > However, it's clear that you believe people will, for some strange reason,
> > become accustomed to typing "cvs tag -d -b sometag" even when they don't
> > need
> > "-b" 99.9999% of the time, thus reducing the effectiveness of the "-b" to
> > nothing.
>
> Users do strange things, all the time. part of my arguement was that they
> are going to learn the -b behaviour and use it regardless. And then
> your patch doesn't stop them anymore.
Since users almost never delete branch tags (at least not
intentionally), it's hard to see how they would learn to use -b.
Especially if -b *prevents* deleting a revision tag, as I think
it should.
-Larry Jones
I suppose if I had two X chromosomes, I'd feel hostile too. -- Calvin
- Re: Preventing mistakenly deleting branch tags, (continued)
- Re: Preventing mistakenly deleting branch tags, Donald Sharp, 2001/06/01
- Re: Preventing mistakenly deleting branch tags, Stephen Cameron, 2001/06/04
- Re: Preventing mistakenly deleting branch tags, Donald Sharp, 2001/06/04
- Re: Preventing mistakenly deleting branch tags, Stephen Cameron, 2001/06/04
- Re: Preventing mistakenly deleting branch tags, Donald Sharp, 2001/06/04
- Re: Preventing mistakenly deleting branch tags, Stephen Cameron, 2001/06/04
- Re: Preventing mistakenly deleting branch tags, Donald Sharp, 2001/06/04
- Re: Preventing mistakenly deleting branch tags, Stephen Cameron, 2001/06/04
- Re: Preventing mistakenly deleting branch tags, Larry Jones, 2001/06/04
- Re: Preventing mistakenly deleting branch tags, Donald Sharp, 2001/06/04
- Re: Preventing mistakenly deleting branch tags,
Larry Jones <=
- Re: Preventing mistakenly deleting branch tags, Stephen Cameron, 2001/06/04
- Re: Preventing mistakenly deleting branch tags, Derek R. Price, 2001/06/04
Re: Preventing mistakenly deleting branch tags, Don Bockenfeld/FVI, 2001/06/04