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Date:      Tue, 29 Mar 2005 11:56:19 -0600
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        Clint Olsen <clint@0lsen.net>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: What's the current 5.4 tag?
Message-ID:  <20050329175619.GA51674@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <20050329174624.GR62864@0lsen.net>
References:  <20050329174624.GR62864@0lsen.net>

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In the last episode (Mar 29), Clint Olsen said:
> I tried RELENG_5_4 and cvsup wiped out my entire source repository since
> ths tag doesn't exist.  This seems like a silly thing to do - blasting the
> entire archive if a tag doesn't exist.  Why not error out instead?

You can add the "-d ##" flag to cvsup, which will cause it to error out
after deleting ## files.  cvsup doesn't really know if a tag doesn't
exist until it has walked the entire CVS repo.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com



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