Re: Emacs 23.1.90 pretest

[Andreas Schwab]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

>>> I really can't imagine why "tag" would be a problem.  "tag" is suppose
>>> to tag exactly the revisions of the files you have currently checked
>>> out, so if those files are fine, so is your tag.
>> That's exactly the problem.  Your checked out files may be out of date
>> wrt. the repository.
>
> "Out of date" in which sense?  You mean, there might have been some
> commits performed since?

No, there were some commits performed before!

> Of course, that's true, but it doesn't matter because "tag" will use
> the revisions in your tree, which should all be self-consistent.

But it is inconsistent with the One True Repository.

> You can checkout, wait for a year, and then perform "tag", and it will
> still be consistent.

But not consistent with a checkout by date.

Andreas.

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