RE: cvs tag: some slightly counterintuitive behaviour

[Carucci, Jason]

No, I believe cvs will tag the files in the repository, the files in your
working directory are irrelevant for this operation.

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Andy Jones
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Subject: cvs tag: some slightly counterintuitive behaviour


I've found some behaviour of cvs tag that breaks the principal of least
astonishment - at least, for me.

In short: cvs tag doesn't tag the files in the working directory, it tags
the files it thinks are there.

I'm preparing a release.  Some of the code is questionable - I don't know if
it is dead or not but it certainly does not want to be part of the release.
So I've been deleting these files from the working directory.

Now I come to make a release tag.  My expectation is that since cvs tag
requires a working directory then it will operate on that working directory,
tagging the files in it but *not* the files I have removed.

It doesn't, though.  It tags all the files it thinks should be in the
working dir, whether they are there or not.

Any thoughts?  I think that at the very least this behaviour should be
spelled out more clearly in the manual.

[cvs 1.11.12 on Red Hat 7.1] 



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