[cvsnt] tagging and branching

[Ian Huynh]

oh never mind. looks like our qa guy was using rtag -F 
or had the parameter backward



> -----Original Message-----
> From: cvsnt-bounces at cvsnt.org 
> [mailto:cvsnt-bounces at cvsnt.org]On Behalf
> Of Ian Huynh
> Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 1:40 PM
> To: cvsnt at cvsnt.org
> Subject: RE: [cvsnt] tagging and branching
> 
> 
> 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.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Oliver
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