Re[2]: [stellation-res] Repository shadowing and problem resolutions

[Marco Qualizza <mlq@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Mark,

Saturday, July 20, 2002, 7:34:59 PM, you wrote:

>> How can I do that with CVS tags? I know how to set tags and how to
>> retrieve a certain revision based on tag. Can I inquire: "what is the
>> latest tag on the files in this sandbox/workspace" ?

> Well, there's the tradeoff.

> With tags, you can precisely identify exactly what set of file versions
> perfectly correspond with the project version in Stellation. With the
> changelog, you can more easily look at what's going on.

> Doing both is probably the best bet, but I still don't know how well
> CVS is going to cope with lots and lots of tags.

If it's any consolation, at my old workplace we had several hundred
tags and neither CVS (1.11.1p1 on RH 7.2) nor Eclipse had any problems
handling the volume.  (I don't believe we had over 400 tags, tho'.)