[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Greetings!
>
> Our developers will tag their code for builds under test, and when
> problems
> are fixed, they will move the current tag until the product is shipped and
>
> the tag is frozen. Occasionally, someone makes the mistake of moving the
> branch tag instead of one of the branch's static tags. The problem here
> is
> that the tag is converted into a static tag. Sometimes it's hard to
> recover.
>
> Maybe this falls under the "yeah, and any idiot who accidently types 'rm
> -rf
> /usr' should have to accept the price", but it would sure seem like an
> easy
> fix for CVS to not allow the -F option when the tag is a branch tag.
>
> What do YOU guys think?
[smc] Some time ago, I had made an
(admittedly idle) proposal to add a
command which might export a tag
file that would contain a definition of
all the tags and what revisions of what
files they referred to.
That way, you could do something like this:
1. restore your pre-disaster repository from backups
to some new disk space someplace
2. cvs export_tag lost_tag > lost_tag_file
3. go to your real repository
4. cvs import_tag < lost_tag_file
Or something along those lines.
Of course nothing became of my idle prattlings,
as is normally the case when it comes to CVS.
