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tags for CVS are nice, but it can be a pain when you're doing lots of checkins and have to re-load the file each time. You can either executeM-x revert-bufer
or bind that to a key, or else use a trick by doingC-x C-v
which invokesfind-alternate-file
, but just so happens to have the current buffer name, so you just have to doC-x C-v RET