[cvsnt] Feature request: Commitable tags

[Tony Hoyle]

On Tue, 29 Apr 2003 09:30:17 +0300, Tuomas Huhtanen
<tuomas.huhtanen at vertex.fi> wrote:


>0) You have checked out files with some sticky tag (e.g. ct_R1), and are 
>about to commit the changes made to the files.
>
>1) Extract the revision number of file to be commited. (e.g 1.1.2.2)
>2) Extract the branch number from the revision number (e.g 1.1.2)
>3) Force commit to the branch number (1.1.2)
>4) Move the tag to the new revision (ct_R1->1.1.2.3)
>5) Update the local copy to the moved tag
>
>This would do it, but not atomically of course. The other thing is that 
>then I'm bound to specific client of cvs. And third, that would be quite 
>slow.
>
Well step 3 at least doesn't make sense - you can't force a commit to a
version number that already exists (especially not a branch).  Really what
you're doing is:

0) Make sure the branch is checked out (which would normally be true anyway)
1) Commit the file (thus creating version 1.1.2.3)
2) Tag -F the file

Tony