[Python-Dev] RELEASED: Python 2.2.1

Anthony Baxter Anthony Baxter <anthony@interlink.com.au>
Fri, 12 Apr 2002 22:56:10 +1000


>>> Guido van Rossum wrote
> >  > Can some who knows how sort out the CVS mess?  I can learn, I guess,
> >  > but I'd rather not risk cocking it up.
> 
> To move a tag, simply retag with the same tag but adding the -F
> option.  If you retag a whole tree with -F, you only get "T filename"
> lines for files where the tag is actually moved.  In this case I'd say
> leave it.

Note well: cvs tag -F works poorly in the presence of deleted files. 
I prefer to cvs rtag -d (delete) and retag the whole lot. Much safer.

Anthony

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