Re: Help someone removed the branch tag script needed

[Eric Siegerman]

On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 09:47:12PM +0100, Stephan Kauss wrote:
> this was also my first intension to do, but this create a new branch and
> didn't recognize that there is still a exiting branch (without a label).
> In the file,v file is after this operation a tag in the symbols section
> with                   "   R20011113-patch:1.4.0.4"
> the right one would be "   R20011113-patch:1.4.0.2"

Oops.  I forgot about that.  My approach, then, would probably be 
something like this:
  - Restore the repo from backups (to a temporary location!
    because restoring the live one would clobber any recent
    commits)
  - Use the scratch copy to get a list of file->rev# mappings
    for the R20011113-patch tag
  - Use "cvs admin" or "rcs" to reapply the tag to each file in
    the live repo

Because you have to wait for the restore, this plan might be
slower than figuring out the revision numbers by reading the
entrails of the live ,v files; but it seems easier and less
error-prone.

Good luck!

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