[Monotone-devel] Re: Best practice using monotone

[Bruce Stephens]

"Andy Jones" <address@hidden> writes:

> In CVS I had a permanent work area sticky on the tag "test".  As each
> change was tested and passed by the QA team it got tagged.  Then all I
> had to do was "cvs update" in the release area.  The unit test version
> of the product ran from this working area, expected the code to be
> there.

And occasionally you moved the "test" tag?

> It seems to me that the "test" tag could be a signature.
>
> Alternatively I could just write a script that did 'mtn update -r t:test' !
>
> (Um, that +would+ get the +latest+ revision with that tag, right?)

No, I think it'll give an error if more than one revision has that
tag.  You'd be better off using a branch, probably.

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