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Re: Undesired Sticky Tags With cvs update
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Chuck Taylor |
Subject: |
Re: Undesired Sticky Tags With cvs update |
Date: |
Tue, 26 Feb 2002 22:07:49 GMT |
On Tue, 26 Feb 2002 15:34:25 -0500, Eric Siegerman
<address@hidden> wrote:
>On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 01:27:41PM +0000, Chuck Taylor wrote:
>> -- The recursive action of cvs tag puts a sticky tag on
>> directories themselves, which interferes with cvs add
>> ("-->Using per-directory sticky tag ..." followed by errors
>> like "cannot add a file on a branch...").
>Upgrade! The current CVS is quite happy to add files on a
>branch.
Indeed it does. And with your points in favor of tagging everything,
I may recommend that my group change its procedure (after installing
an upgraded version of CVS on our development network).
Thanks for the good information.
...
>> Yet someone took the time to implement the -f option in the cvs tag
>> command, and presumably it works as it was meant to work. What was
>> its intended purpose?
>No clue. Sorry.
>It occurs to me that this option might be more useful if it
>worked properly, but I don't really know what "properly" is. I
>guess your proposal's as good as any...
I was able to make the option work "properly" (as I see it) with a
small addition to the CVS source. But that's before I discovered
(from your reply) that the current version of CVS will add files on a
branch, which gives me more room to lean away from using the -f option
at all.
Thanks again.
--
Chuck Taylor
http://home.hiwaay.net/~taylorc/contact/