[cvsnt] Re: cvs admin -s <state>

[David Somers]

Hi Oliver,

> It can be used to declare revisions "dead" after the fact, i.e. instead
> of cvs remove'ing them: Revisions that are declared "dead" will no
> longer be checked out. On occasion I utilized this for emulating
> renames (copy ,v-file in repository, then mark all revisions in the new
> file prior to the rename "dead", finally cvs remove the old file).

That's fine :-)

> Apart from that the state has no meaning to CVS AFAIK. I guess it could
> still serve some kind of documentation purpose but I'm not using that.

There was some mumblings in the rcs/rcsfile documentation about setting the
state to "Rel" and "Stab", but I think that was a hangover from the days
before tag/branch came along. I don't think anybody uses them anymore.

Greetings,

David