Re: Delete/cleanup tags

[seetha natarajan]

Yes, these are non-branch tags I'm referring to.

 

There are 2 reasons why I want to cleanup these tags:

 

1. When I run 'cvs log' command on any file, these unwanted tags show up and cause confusion in identifying the tags which I looking for.

2. The number of tags that get created each week is high.

 

For branch tag deletion, I think the command is

cvs tag -d -b <branch-name>

 

In this case, for the branch tag deletion, would the branch code be lost? But I suppose that should be ok as long as the code is present in the trunk.

 

On 7/12/07, Spiro Trikaliotis <address@hidden> wrote:

Hello,

* On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 02:14:59PM -0500 seetha natarajan wrote:
>
>    Hi,
>    I'm a CVS admin and there are a huge number of unwanted/old tags
>    present in the repository that I would like to delete.
>    Will the below command help:
>    cvs rtag -d <tag-name> <repository-name>
>    My concern is: would any code would be lost in the process?
>    Please help me in this.

If these are really tags, not branch-tags, then no code is lost. Note
that "newer" CVS version would not let you delete branch tags with this
command.

But the big question is: Why do you want to get rid of the tags? Tags
are rather cheap, and I hardly recognize a reason to delete them. Just
let them there, this is the best possibility not to break anything.

Best regards,
  Spiro.

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