[Gnu-arch-users] Re: how to best tag releases

[Mark Stosberg]

On 2004-03-29, Aaron Bentley <address@hidden> wrote:
> Mark Stosberg wrote:
>
>> 
>> Before now, I've been using 'tla tag', like my example below. I didn't like 
>> that 
>> I had explicitly give the revision I wanted to tag. I wanted a way to say 
>> something that would
>> mean something like the "current tree revision" or "latest revision". (I was 
>> able to do that in CVS.)
>
> You can specify a version, not just a revision.  The documentation is 
> out-of-date.
>
> So you can do this:
> $ tla tag $(tla tree-version) $targetversion
>
> This will work as long as you want to tag from the latest revision of 
> the tree version.

Thanks for the response. 

I have a point of clarification about this. Does this tag the /current/
patch level or is it essentially tagging 'HEAD' (in CVS terms) so the
tag will point to different code at different times? I want the former
behavior. 

        Mark

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