Earnie Boyd wrote:
> Robert Collins wrote:
>>
>> No, I used:
>>
>> $ cvs -z4 tag -Fb setup-200303
>> in a setup-200303-troubleshooting working dir.
>>
>
> Which intuitively says ...?

Move a branch tag. Which (and this bit possibly isn't intuitive) isn't a
good thing to do. Latest CVS adds an extra option to tag, without which it
will refuse to touch branch tags even with -F.

> This should not have updated the cvs
> repository.  It would have been commits at a later date that would have
> updated the repository.  The ``tag'' updates the working directory with

No. cvs tag affects the repository immediately.
It uses the working directory only to know which versions of which files to
tag.

Max.

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