Re: bug report: tag is deleted by mistake

[Sam Louis]

cvs tag -d tagname a.txt

It's the normal way to remove a file from a (non-branch) tag

>>    cvs up -r tagname a.txt
>>    cvs rm -rf a.txt
>>    cvs ci a.txt

I think  that this operation should be  forbidden, don't u think this ?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Larry Jones" <lawrence.jones@siemens.com>
To: "Sam Louis" <liursa@gmail.com>
Cc: <bug-cvs@nongnu.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2008 2:10 AM
Subject: Re: bug report: tag is deleted by mistake


> Sam Louis writes:
>> 
>>    cvs up -dr tag a.txt
>>    cvs rm -rf a.txt
>>    cvs ci a.txt
>> 
>>    the tag is deleted from a.txt by mistake
> 
> It's not a mistake -- that's the way CVS has always behaved.
> 
>>    I don't want to delete the tag of a.txt :(
> 
> What *do* you want?  There's no other way to remove a file from a
> (non-branch) tag.
> -- 
> Larry Jones
> 
> All this was funny until she did the same thing to me. -- Calvin