Re: How to bring a branch back on a file when the tag has been moved

[Larry Jones]

Prabhu Ram writes:
> 
> We have a branch on which dev. was taking place and someone accidentally
> moved the tag (which is also the branch name) to the tip of the branch.  Is
> there a "nice" way of setting the branch back to the branch point ?

No.  CVS won't move an existing tag unless you force it to using the -F
flag, so you may want to beat up any users that always use -F to prevent
future mistakes of that sort.  The current development version of CVS
goes one step farther and refuses to convert a branch tag to a revision
tag unless you also specify the -B flag, which should prevent such
accidents completely.

-Larry Jones

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