Re: Deleted files come back to haunt us

[Stewart Brodie]

In message <address@hidden>
          address@hidden (Eric Siegerman) wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 07:14:07PM +0000, Andre Majorel wrote:
> > Our setup is the following ; every time we make a new release,
> > we tag HEAD with a new unique tag (such as "v4_3_19") and then
> > we tag v4_3_19 with "unstable", so that "unstable" always points
> > to the latest release.
> > 
> > The actual commands used :
> > 
> >   cvs -q rtag -F v4_3_19 ourmodule
> >   cvs -q rtag -r v4_3_19 -F unstable ourmodule
> 
> There's nothing here to remove the "unstable" tag from the
> deleted files.
> 
> Try adding a "-a" to the second rtag command:
>       cvs -q rtag -r v4_3_19 -Fa unstable ourmodule
> I've never used this, but its help description suggests that it
> might be just the ticket:
>       -a      Clear tag from removed files that would not
>               otherwise be tagged.

We do a similar thing - tagging a specific version of a component with a tag
such as <projectid>_stable.  The command I use to tag a component is:

cvs -fQq $compression $repos rtag -a -f -F -r $version $stabletag $path

$compression is the -z option from the user's .cvsrc
$repos is the -d option to set the repository
$version is the symbolic tag to associate the stable tag with
$stabletag is new tag
$path is the path in the repository.

No other combination of options worked satisfactorily in our experience.


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