In a message dated 7/20/00 3:15:49 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Perhaps the problem stems from "-F" meaning
> "Force", thus allowing all sorts of questionable things to
> be justified as part of "cvs tag -F" and overloading of "-F"
> to move a normal tag, which is a fairly common operation that
> seems like it should not require a mnemonically drastic-sounding
> option such as "-F". Just a few thoughts.
cvs should reject "cvs tag -F tagname" if "tagname" is a branch tag. the
pain and suffering this causes is too great. I reported this as a bug to
Cyclic or SourceGear a while back. They agreed it was a Bad Thing, but not a
bug. So there it stayed.
Can anyone explain why it SHOULDN'T be changed?
:)hal
