Re: Problems with -f option and checkout

[Eric Siegerman]

On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 08:12:29PM -0400, Larry Jones wrote:
> John McNamara writes:
> > 
> > Why doesn't Case 2 work?
> 
> If the tag doesn't exist at all, CVS assumes that you've made a mistake
> and so doesn't do anything.  After all, if the tag doesn't exist at all,
> why are you specifying it with -f instead of just checking out the head?
> 
> > If Case 2 shouldn't work why does Case 3 work?
> 
> Actually, Case 3 may or may not work -- it depends on whether the tag is
> in the CVSROOT/val-tags file or not.  If it is, it works; if it's not,
> it doesn't.

[Not disagreeing with Larry; just elaborating]

Case 3 is supposed to work all the time.  CVSROOT/val-tags exists
specifically to let CVS distinguish Cases 2 and 3 (the only other
way would be to recursively search the entire repo for files
containing the requested tag -- obviously a non-starter).  But
val-tags is not always correct; tags that are supposed to be
listed in it aren't always there.

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