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Checking a Tag
From: |
Roser Timm (KADA 31) |
Subject: |
Checking a Tag |
Date: |
Wed, 23 Jul 2003 08:39:42 +0200 |
As i never saw my request on the list i post it again - please excuse if you
receive it twice.
Hello there
We have a cvs problem that looks like a bug to me, and i'd like to hear your
opinions:
If we tag a module and later on delete the same tag on the module, cvs acts
differently
as when the tag has never been set.
I recon that cvs checks the val-tags file only when deciding whether the tag
exists and doesn't look at the files themselves
to say good or bad.
This looks inconsistent to me:
if you check out a module with a tag, you would either expect cvs to
- return with failure saying "no such tag" - when the tag has not been set on
the module
- or it should return the files in the tagged revision
What it currently does is:
if the tag has been set once on any module in the Repository (and therefore
is in val-tags) it returns with success but with
no files when the tag has not been set (or deleted) on the module. It should
return a failure and "no such tag" though !
For any automated build process this is difficult to handle as the returncode
of the checkout is not deterministic.
Regards
Timm
- Checking a Tag,
Roser Timm (KADA 31) <=