RE: manual modifications to the repository

[Gene Volkov]

> 2. Manuall edit a 'file,v' to associate a new tag with an old 
> version. 

>There's no reason to do this at all, ever. Look at the -r and -F options
>to
>tag and rtag. Even if I don't understand exactly what you mean, I can't
>think of anything you could possibly be talking about that can't be done
>with ordinary cvs commands.

Well I'm still interested in a reply to this if I need to do this: How can I
rename HOLIDAY branch to PROD branch, at the same time deleting branch
HOLIDAY? (rename a branch, not a module and I don't want to use cvs rtag -b
-r HOLIDAY PROD <modulename>, in which HOLIDAY stays around)

Thanks.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jerry Nairn [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 1:28 PM
To: 'Arcin Bozkurt - Archie'; address@hidden
Subject: RE: manual modifications to the repository



> From: Arcin Bozkurt - Archie [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 11:10 AM

> Are the modifications that I am planning to make dangerous?

> 1. Copy a directory into another directory
> /cvsroot/a goes to /cvsroot/OtherModule/SubDir/a for example. 

This should be fine. Depending on why you're doing this, you may want to
then delete the old tags from this new location using

cvs rtag -d <old_tag_name> OtherModule/SubDir/a

> 2. Manuall edit a 'file,v' to associate a new tag with an old 
> version. 

There's no reason to do this at all, ever. Look at the -r and -F options to
tag and rtag. Even if I don't understand exactly what you mean, I can't
think of anything you could possibly be talking about that can't be done
with ordinary cvs commands.

> 3. Remove some directories, that were created by mistake.

That's probably okay, if no one is using these accidental directories. The
problems that would be created, if any, would be for checked out copies of
these directories.

Jerry

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