

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us] 
> 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" <scrappy@hub.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?

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.

Sun, 5 Jan 2003 16:53:01 -0000
"Dave Page" <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk>
Re: [GENERAL] v7.3.1 Bundled and Released ... 