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Re: Bad import with vendor tag set to a valid branch tag


From: Pierre Asselin
Subject: Re: Bad import with vendor tag set to a valid branch tag
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 01:51:37 +0000 (UTC)
User-agent: tin/1.6.2-20030910 ("Pabbay") (UNIX) (NetBSD/2.0.3 (i386))

Greg Kilfoyle <address@hidden> wrote:

> In two separate instances there was code imported into our cvs repo
> which had the vendor tag argument set to an existing branch tag. Clearly
> this was a mistake, but I'm wondering if there is any way to fix it.

Ouch.


> In one case the branch tag is no longer used, so it doesn't cause any
> problems. In the other case, the branch tag is in active use and any
> time a change is made to one of the imported files on the branch, it
> magically appears on the trunk.

I think you need to use 'cvs admin -b' to reset the default branch
to 1.1.1 or to the trunk, file by file.

To clean up the branch it self, you could use 'cvs admin -o' to remove
the incorrect imports.

Or you could restore your repository from backups :-(


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pa at panix dot com


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