Re: Deleted files come back to haunt us

[Eric Siegerman]

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.

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