Robert Collins wrote: > Max Bowsher wrote: >>> Go for it. I didn't realise CVS was so broken. >> >> >> Forgot to say in my last email: >> >> Do you recall the command you ran that caused this? Presumably something >> like "cvs (r)tag -F". Or was it a script that went wrong? I see some >> instances of cvs rtag -F in maint/cvsmerge. Did you use that script? > > No, I used: > > $ cvs -z4 tag -Fb setup-200303 > in a setup-200303-troubleshooting working dir.
Ah right. > because, rtag is broken with sources.redhat.com's cvs on this repository. Oh yes, the 2 page assertion failiure. I can't imagine why it doesn't work for you. It works for me, testing on a copy of the repository into my home dir *on sources.redhat.com*. You can't get any closer to reproducing the situation than that, without actually touching the real repository. Max.
