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From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-03-11 08:23:01


"Gennadiy Rozental" <gennadiy.rozental_at_[hidden]> writes:

> P.S. Could you, please, clarify for me again what is the purpose of this
> tag? How does it related to the fixes I made in trunk after branch is
> created?

The tag marks the last trunk revision that has been merged into the
branch, so that when you do a merge to the branch you can always do

        cvs up -jmerged_to_RC_whatever -jHEAD

Then when you switch back to the trunk (HEAD) you move the
merged_to_RC_whatever tag to point at the HEAD again.

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