> -----Original Message----- > From: Tom Lane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 05 January 2003 01:10 > To: Marc G. Fournier > Cc: Dan Langille; Peter Eisentraut; Greg Copeland; Bruce > Momjian; PostgresSQL Hackers Mailing List > Subject: Re: [GENERAL] [HACKERS] v7.3.1 Bundled and Released ... > > > "Marc G. Fournier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I never considered tag'ng for minor releases as having any > importance, > > since the tarball's themselves provide the 'tag' ... > branches give us > > the ability to back-patch, but tag's don't provide us > anything ... do > > they? > > Well, a tag makes it feasible for someone else to recreate > the tarball, given access to the CVS server. Dunno how > important that is in the real world --- but I have seen > requests before for us to tag release points. > > Any other arguments out there?
I've often found tags useful when ppl have reported bugs that have occured between version - A quick way to see the changes that might have introduced the new bug when browsing though a web interface. Regards, Dave. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])