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Re: bug report: tag is deleted by mistake


From: Todd Denniston
Subject: Re: bug report: tag is deleted by mistake
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:25:03 -0400
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Derek Price wrote, On 08/13/2008 03:11 PM:
Larry Jones wrote:
Derek Price writes:
Sam Louis wrote:
   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 ?
It most certainly shouldn't be forbidden, though an argument might be made for marking the file "dead" on the branch and leaving the tag in place.

I think that *is* what happens if the tag is a branch tag; deleting the
tag only happens when it's a revision tag.

Thanks for making what's happening here understandable.

There is an argument for
refusing to allow the commit of the delete the same way we refuse to
allow commit of changes in that case, but we've always been leary of
changing the way it works since someone somewhere might be depening on
it.

Ah, yes. My mistake, I misunderstood but recall this now. This is one of those cases where I don't like CVS's behavior since it does seem inconsistent. I wouldn't really be adverse to forbidding this, but I'm not going to fight for it either.


I agree, now that I understand the scope of what Sam was seeing, that this is inconsistent. I had been under the assumption that ALL commits against a normal tag would fail. Why is there an inconsistency here? And I don't mean why was it made this way, I mean is there a special case in the code that allows this commit to work while commits against changes to the text of the file will fail? If there is a special case made just for this, I vote* to remove it or replace it with printf("use `cvs tag -d %s %s` to remove the tag.", TagText, FileName).

*as a CVS user who is not making the code change. :)
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Todd Denniston
Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC Crane)
Harnessing the Power of Technology for the Warfighter




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