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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
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Subject: Re: PostgreSQL Developer meeting minutes up
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On Wednesday 27 May 2009 13:25:14 Markus Wanner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Quoting "Peter Eisentraut" <peter_e@gmx.net>:
> > .. some of our tags are broken.  Any conversion will either have to drop
> > or repair some tags; see my previous posts to hackers about this.
>
> Can you please point me to that post? I didn't find it.

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-12/msg01879.php

> In what way do you consider the tags "broken"?

The tag applies to different commits on different files.

> (As CVS does not
> guarantee any inter-file consistency, I don't think one can speak of
> brokenness at all.

Just because CVS doesn't guarantee it, it doesn't mean it's not broken.  
Otherwise, any possible random permutation of files would be a non-broken 
checkout by your definition.