On 2008-02-27 12:21, John Hein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Giorgos Keramidas wrote at 21:04 +0200 on Feb 27, 2008: >> On 2008-02-27 08:36, John Hein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Can someone point me at a script that does tag renaming >> > after a repo copy? >> >> You don't really need a `script' to do this. >> >> Tags in CVS are not versioned, so you can force-tag the repo-copied >> files and move the tag to its new place. >> >> For example if you have two files: >> >> foo.c,v >> bar.c,v >> >> and bar.c,v is a repo-copy of foo.c,v then you move the tag only for the >> bar.c file by checking it out, and running: >> >> cvs tag -f -r 1.2 bar.c > > ------------------------^^^ you're missing the tag name in this > example, but... > >> This should force/move the tag to point revision 1.2. > > I don't want to move the tag... I want to invalidate old tags by > renaming them to something else (like foo-1-2-3 -> old_foo-1-2-3).
Ah, now I see. Sorry for the confusion :/ > Note that just using cvs to rename a tag (by tagging with the new name > and then removing the former name) has issues when you try to do that > with branch tags. > > Anyway, I'm pretty sure the FreeBSD cvs-meisters run something to > invalidate tags after doing a repo copy. That's the information I was > looking for. Scripting is probably risky for this sort of thing, but I'll let the CVS meisters reply :) _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
