RE: Best practise with tagging

[Jim.Hyslop]

Guus Leeuw jr. wrote:
> > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> > Von: address@hidden 
> >   "Before any public release of the software, you must tag 
> > the module."
> 
> I would suggest "Before any ... You must branch the module 
> with a release
> tag"
I disagree.

Branches can be very complex to manage. I recommend creating them only when
necessary. If you have a non-branch symbolic tag applied, it is trivial to
create a branch *when needed*.

-- 
Jim Hyslop
Senior Software Designer
Leitch Technology International Inc. (http://www.leitch.com)
Columnist, C/C++ Users Journal (http://www.cuj.com/experts)