rtag problems

[Mark E. Hamilton]

All,

I made a mistake and neglected to tag all of our repositories prior to 
making a fairly large change. No big deal, I thought, I know the date of 
the last commit and the date of the change, I can rtag the repository 
now at a time between those two. However, rtag doesn't seem to do what I 
thought it did.

I can check out a module from the date in question.

% cvs -d <repos> checkout -D "2006/8/20 22:00" adagio_itar
cvs checkout: Updating adagio_itar
U adagio_itar/Apps_adagio_itar.C
U adagio_itar/adagio_itar_sn.xml
cvs checkout: Updating adagio_itar/rtest
cvs checkout: Updating adagio_itar/rtest/null
U adagio_itar/rtest/null/.cvsignore
U adagio_itar/rtest/null/null.i
U adagio_itar/rtest/null/null.xml


When I rtag it cvs indicates that it's doing it:

% cvs -d <repos> rtag -D "2006/8/20 22:00" test_tag adagio_itar
cvs rtag: Tagging adagio_itar
cvs rtag: Tagging adagio_itar/rtest
cvs rtag: Tagging adagio_itar/rtest/null


but when I try to check out from the tag it fails:

% rm -rf adagio_itar
% cvs -d <repos> checkout -r test_tag adagio_itar
cvs [checkout aborted]: no such tag test_tag

Doing 'cvs log' on one of the files doesn't show the tag in the list of 
symbolic names.

Of course I could simply go into the directory after the first checkout 
and use 'cvs tag', but I'd like to know what I'm doing wrong. What am I 
missing? (Also, section 4.6 clearly indicates that rtag is better. ;) )

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Mark E. Hamilton
Orion International Technologies, Inc.
Sandia National Laboratory, NM.
505-844-7666