Re: [GENERAL] v7.3.1 Bundled and Released ...

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>
Cc: Dan Langille <dan(at)langille(dot)org>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Greg Copeland <greg(at)CopelandConsulting(dot)Net>, Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgresSQL Hackers Mailing List <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] v7.3.1 Bundled and Released ...
Date: 2003-01-05 01:10:19
Message-ID: 4873.1041729019@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> 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?

regards, tom lane

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