RE: Wins1.2 tag problems

[Thornley, David]

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> Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 10:23 AM
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> Subject: Wins1.2 tag problems
> 
> 
> Hi, 
> 
> I've tried to tag a entire module using WinCvs 1.2
> without success I got the following message: 
> 
>  cvs rtag -a -r 1.2 Version1.3 gui 
> 
>   cvs [rtag aborted]: tag `Version1.3' must not      contain  
>  the characters `$,.:;@'
> 
> I haven't got any clue about that.
> 
You put a period in the tagname, and you can't do that.  In fact,
you can't use any of the listed characters in a tagname.  Use
something like "Version1_3" instead.  It's a minor pain, but there
has to be some way of distinguishing a tagname from a revision
number.