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Re: Help with understanding tagging
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Larry Jones |
Subject: |
Re: Help with understanding tagging |
Date: |
Mon, 10 Jun 2002 15:27:27 -0400 (EDT) |
Miller Sally S NPRI writes:
>
> It looks like I'm seeing a problem with rtag.
> cvs history -T
> T 06/06 18:00 +0000 smith modulename [June2002:A]
> T 06/07 21:13 +0000 jones modulename [June2002:A]
>
> Seeing the same name tag on the same module made me concerned.
Why? It could have been a redundat tag operation that didn't actually
do anything (other than get recorded in the history file), or someone
could have been moving the tag -- that's a perfectly normal thing to do.
> out of curiosity I did
> cvs rdiff -s -r June2002 -r HEAD modulename
> and again there were 20 files that had changes.
> I started looking at the files and they were modified *BEFORE* the rtag was
> done.
>
> Shouldn't the rtag have picked up the new changes?
It's impossible to say based on just the history log -- you need to know
the exact command the user used. I always recommend against using rtag
without specifying a specific revision to tag since you have no way of
knowing exactly what you're tagging otherwise. If the user *did*
specify a specific revision to tag (either by sepcifying an existing tag
or a date), then the changes shouldn't be picked up.
-Larry Jones
OK, there IS a middle ground, but it's for sissy weasels. -- Calvin