I generally hack together a quick and dirty shell script that does this. Take your list and make sure that they are in a file one per line. Load it up in vi( or your editor of choice ) and search and replace 1,$s/^/cvs rtag -d /. Run by /bin/sh <filename>
donald On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 05:00:32PM -0500, Lynch, Harold wrote: > > We've had a repository running for quite a while now (3.5 years) and > the list of tags is quite long. Most of the tags don't have any use any > more and we have found that the output of status commands etc. is quite > confiusing. So I have a list of about 1500 tags that the users would like > removed. Now I ran a couple of tests and found that a cvs rtag -d <> command > takes between 5 and 10 minutes on this repository. > > Has anyone come across a way of doing a "bulk" deletion of tags, > maybe a perl script that walks the tree in the repository ? > > Also the repository has both text and binary files checked into it. > > Harold Lynch > > > _______________________________________________ > Info-cvs mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
