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Expand Up @@ -831,6 +831,12 @@ repository and are not allowed to contain spaces or spacial characters.
Besides the actual tag's name they can also contain a free descriptive
text and store a creation timestamp.

To mount a specific named snapshot as a client use

::

CVMFS_REPOSITORY_TAG=$tagname

Named snapshots are best to use for larger modifications to the
repository, for instance when a new major software release is installed.
Named snapshots provide the ability to easily undo modifications and to
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