From: Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 20:19:42 GMT
Subject: Re: gitweb wishlist
Message-ID: <46a038f905052413192bbc10ff@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4292A08A.5050108@cobite.com>

On 5/24/05, David Mansfield <david@cobite.com> wrote:
> > means..
> >
> 
> Ok.  I'll tell you.  It means that the committer uses bad practices in
> tagging ;-)  It generally means that force tag (cvs tag -F <file>) was
> used on a specific file.  Here's the scenario:

Projects that branch on release (and maintain a long-lived stable
branch following the release) often use a floating MERGED branch to
keep track of what bugfixes have been merged back into HEAD. This
practice, broken as it is, is the recommended approach AFAIK.

It would be a good thing to be able to tell cvsps to ignore certain
tags (by name or by regex).


martin