[cvsnt] tagging and branching

[Ian Huynh]

when excuting the cmd below for my branch

cvs rtag -r myBranch myTag_For_myBranch myModule 

the cmd executed succesfully, but when showing status of any files in the maintrunk,
the myTag_For_myBranch shows up for all of those files.

How does that work? 

cvs export -r myTag_For_myBranch myLocalDirectory

which version does cvs get my files from?  main trunk or myBranch ?







> -----Original Message-----
> From: cvsnt-bounces at cvsnt.org 
> [mailto:cvsnt-bounces at cvsnt.org]On Behalf
> Of Oliver Giesen
> Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 1:01 AM
> To: cvsnt at cvsnt.org
> Subject: Re: [cvsnt] tagging and branching
> 
> 
> Ian Huynh wrote:
> 
> > I've looked at the documentation and it eludes to -r option
> > 
> > eg. 
> >     cvs rtag -r myBranch myTag_For_myBranch
> 
> ...plus the module name of course, but yes, that's what you 
> need to do.
> 
> 
> > but -r is described in the help file as followed:
> > 
> > -r tag
> > Only tag those files that contain tag.  This can be used to rename a
> > tag: tag only the files identified by the old tag, then delete the
> > old tag, leaving the new tag on exactly the same files as 
> the old tag.
> > 
> > 
> > My questions are:
> >  
> > 1. i don't want the old tag removed
> 
> That was only an example of what the -r option /could/ be 
> used for. The
> actions described above would look something like this:
> 
> cvs rtag -rOldTag NewTag Module
> cvs rtag -d OldTag
> 
> ..., i.e. the tag removal is always a separate and conscious action.
> 
> 
> > 2. what about new files added to myBranch? Would they have a tag
> > myBranch ? If not, how would they be included    in
> > myTag_For_myBranch?
> 
> That's exactly the point: They wouldn't be on the branch if 
> they didn't
> have the branch tag. So, yes, all files added to that branch will
> indeed automatically have that branch tag.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
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> Oliver
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