Re: rename all tags chronologically

[grant.schoep]

At 09:50 AM 9/9/2006, you wrote:
> Our CVS source has grown for the past 2-3 years and we have a lot of
> tags with different names / naming conventions. (around 200 tags, that
> it is becoming difficult to manage)
>
> In order to clean it up, we are thinking of renaming all tags based on
> the date it was created. Something like: <project>_<date_of_creation>
>
> First of all, is this something advisable - renaming all tags in CVS.
> Is this doable? Can someone help me with the command to use to rename
> all tags in CVS.
>
> Also, one basic question, we have always tagged the entire project
> structure and it takes like 10+ minutes to complete. Is it possible to
> tag just a subfolder within the project?


I've done things kind of like this, I wouldn't doubt there is a better way. 
But I've checked out based on a tag, deleted that tag, and the recursivly 
retagged with new. Its a pain to do, probably worse on large projects. More 
complex things is usually where I get down and dirty and write scripts to 
muck with the actual ,v files in CVSROOT.