From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Joe Buck <jbuck@synopsys.com>
To: law@cygnus.com
Cc: burley@gnu.org, oliva@dcc.unicamp.br, pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at, egcs@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: Inconsistance in snapshots repository
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 14:42:00 -0000
Message-id: <199804171629.JAA04146@atrus.synopsys.com>
References: <6435.892776422@hurl.cygnus.com>
X-SW-Source: 1998-04/msg00696.html

In message < 199804162331.TAA25018@melange.gnu.org >you write:
>   > I'm CVS-unaware, but, generally, is this really guaranteed to provide
>   > a coherent snapshot to anyone, anytime, including if they try using
>   > it while a snapshot is being produced (and the "moving tag" updated)?
> Nope.  But what it does do for the CVS folks is allow them to 
> upgrade to whatever the current snapshot happens to be without
> knowing the exact name of the tag.

Ah, but it seems like a lot of work.  How about

finger latest-egcs-snapshot@cygnus.com

to find that out?  It certainly would be more robust.