Re: tag vs rtag question

[Nick Patavalis]

On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 02:24:47PM -0700, Shankar Unni wrote:
>
> The problem was, if one of the files was *deleted* on the branch, cvs
> tag wouldn't move the tag for that file - you'd have to use cvs rtag for
> it.  The developer in question had done separate "cvs rm"s on the
> mainline and the branch, but since the deleted version on the branch
> wasn't tagged, when I did the next merge from the branch to the
> mainline, the deleted file "reappeared".
> 

Oh, I see. You mean that you were using the *same* tag-name and you
were just "pushing" it forward to more recent revisions, and that this
didn't behave well when the "push" was "crossing" a delete operation!

Tricky, indeed!

/npat

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