Re: Emacs 23.1.90 pretest

[Andreas Schwab]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

>>> Unfortunately, this kind of thing tends to happen in first pretests when
>>> people try to squeeze stuff in at the last minute as I'm rolling the
>>> tarball.
>
>> You can avoid that if you use cvs rtag.
>
> I thought rtag was the problematic one.  I always use `tag' instead, so
> I know it tags exactly the files I'm seeing at the moment.

The right way is to use rtag, then do a fresh checkout of that tag.
That's the only way to guarantee a consistent tag.

> Then you can use that tag to export those exact same files to build a
> tarball, no matter what else happens on the trunk in the mean time.

As you can see with the EMACS_PRETEST_23_1_90 tag, this can result in
the wrong revisions to be tagged.  As a result the git tree is unable to
accurately represent that tag.

Andreas.

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