Re: Deleted files come back to haunt us

[Andre Majorel]

In article <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.

Thanks. I tried what you said and the extra files were still
there.

  cvs rtag -r v4_3_19 -F -a unstable ourmodule    # no good

I deleted unstable and created it again, and this got rid of the
living dead.

  cvs rtag -d unstable ourmodule
  cvs rtag -r v4_3_19 unstable ourmodule

Hmm...

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