[cvsnt] Re: rtag problem permissions problems.

[Tony Hoyle]

Bo Berglund wrote:
  > The reason for the failure might have something to do with the strange
> way CVSNT will build the CVSROOT/val-tags file on certain tag
> operations. I never understood the reason or advantage of this
> procedure. What it does is that it scans every single file in the
> complete repository for tag labels in order to put them all into the
> val-tags file as one line each and followed by the letter y.
> So there is no real use for this file because it does not list where
> the tags are found, it is just a list of tags existing "somewhere".

I'm not sure to this day why it does it really.. it seems to be so the 
system can add meaningful 'no such tag' messages but it really doesn't 
work (and could be done with a 'no files found with this tag' message at 
the end anyway).

I tried a few changes to try to keep val-tags up to date but it still 
gets out of sync sometimes...  It'll be gone in 2.5.02.

Tony