Re: Branch Tag not a branch tag

[Larry Jones]

address@hidden writes:
> 
> On Fri, 2 May 2008, Larry Jones wrote:
> 
> > Dan Peterson writes:
> >>
> >> Would there be any harm in simply doing this:
> >>
> >>    cvs rtag -r foo_branch -F -b foo_branch tree
> >
> > Yes.  If it works at all (which I'm not sure it does), it would mess up 
> > all the currently correct files by creating a *new* branch rooted at the 
> > tip of the exiting branch with the same name as the existing branch, 
> > which would then become nameless.
> 
> Wouldn't the lack of a -B flag prevent the command from changing any tags 
> which are already branch tags?

Yes, you're right; that does seems to work after all.

-- Larry Jones

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