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From: sqweek <sqweek@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Changelogs & Patches?
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On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 8:54 AM, Roman Shaposhnik <rvs@sun.com> wrote:
> Personally, though, I'd say that the usefulness of the
> dump would be greatly improved
> if one had an ability to do ad-hoc archival snapshots AND assigning tags,
> not only dates to them.

 Tags don't make that much sense in this context since the dump is for
the whole filesystem, not a specific project. However, tagging a
source tree can be done with a simple dircp. It's not as though the
duplicate data costs you anything when you're backed by venti.
-sqweek