Re: Info-cvs Digest, Vol 8, Issue 6

[Max Bowsher]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Larry Jones [mailto:address@hidden
...
> Why?  It's "cvs rtag" when used without the -r option that's truely
> dangerous, since you have no way of knowing what revisions you're
> tagging.

Matthew Herrmann wrote:
> I always understood that "cvs rtag" without a "-r" would tag the latest
> version of all files on the trunk, synonymous with "cvs rtag -rHEAD
tagname
> module" (?) I had been using it in this manner for some time and not
> experienced behaviour to contradict this.

Yes, but what if someone commits something between when you decide to run
the rtag and when you actually run it? That is the danger.

Max.