rtag, but the versions are supplied implicitly by the
One use for tags is to record a snapshot of the current sources when the software freeze date of a project arrives. As bugs are fixed after the freeze date, only those changed sources that are to be part of the release need be re-tagged.
The symbolic tags are meant to permanently record which
revisions of which files were used in creating a
software distribution. The checkout and
update commands allow you to extract an exact
copy of a tagged release at any time in the future,
regardless of whether files have been changed, added,
or removed since the release was tagged.
This command can also be used to delete a symbolic tag, or to create a branch. See the options section below.
If you attempt to use a tag name that already exists,