Re: rtag not tagging everything?

[Larry Jones]

Jay Glanville writes:
> 
> I just rtaged a module using the command:
>     cvs rtag TPM_01_02_00_01 source

That is a dangerous (some might even say meaningless) command -- exactly
what revision of each file did you intend to tag?  You didn't say, so
you don't really know what you tagged.

> However, when I perform a
>     cvs log [filename]
> on some files in the source module, I  don't see the tag I stated.  And it's
> inconsistant.  I can see it on some files, but not on others.

Since you didn't tell CVS exactly what to tag, you shouldn't be
surprised that you didn't get what you want.  To be honest, I'm not
entirely sure what happens when you use rtag without specifying a
particular revision.  My guess is that it tags the most recent revision
on the trunk, so any files that don't exist on the trunk (either they
only exist on a branch or they've been deleted and don't exist anywhere)
won't be tagged.

-Larry Jones

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