Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 12:58:48 -0700 From: John Hein <jhein@timing.com> To: "=?UTF-8?Q?Amol_Dharmadhikar?= =?UTF-8?Q?i_=E0=A4=85=E0=A4=AE=E0=A5=8B=E0=A4=B2_=E0=A4=A7=E0=A4=B0?= =?UTF-8?Q?=E0=A5=8D=E0=A4=AE=E0=A4=BE=E0=A4=A7?= =?UTF-8?Q?=E0=A5=80=E0=A4=95=E0=A4=BE=E0=A4=B0=E0=A5=80?=" <amol@dharmadhikari.org> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs tag renaming after repo copy Message-ID: <18373.49400.143413.571279@gromit.timing.com> In-Reply-To: <61ed81c80802271147t3346f52lcb85233fbd3b6884@mail.gmail.com> References: <18373.33662.614583.231211@gromit.timing.com> <20080227190448.GA50031@kobe.laptop> <18373.47157.425456.583623@gromit.timing.com> <61ed81c80802271147t3346f52lcb85233fbd3b6884@mail.gmail.com>
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Amol Dharmadhikar i ???? ?? ???? ????? wrote at 11:47 -0800 on Feb 27, 2008: > On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 11:21 AM, John Hein <jhein@timing.com> wrote: > > I don't want to move the tag... I want to invalidate old tags by > > renaming them to something else (like foo-1-2-3 -> old_foo-1-2-3). > > > > Note that just using cvs to rename a tag (by tagging with the new name > > and then removing the former name) has issues when you try to do that > > with branch tags. [*] > > > > Anyway, I'm pretty sure the FreeBSD cvs-meisters run something to > > invalidate tags after doing a repo copy. That's the information I was > > looking for. > > > > I dont think you can rename tags using a single command. What you can > do instead is create a new tag at the same point as the old tag, and > then delete the old tag. > > eg - > cvs rtag -r old-foo-1-2-3 new-foo-1-2-3 <module_name> > cvs rtag -d old-foo-1-2-3 <module_name> Yes, I mentioned that above [*]. You can't do that with branch tags. You can use cvs admin -n or -N with branch tags. Anyway, I'm wondering if anyone has a script which iterates over existing tags and renames them to old_*. Maybe that will make it more clear what I'm looking for?
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