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Re: Removing multiple tags at the same time


From: Eric Siegerman
Subject: Re: Removing multiple tags at the same time
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 20:06:35 -0400
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On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 04:07:37PM -0700, Pyatt, Scott wrote:
> We have roughly 100 useless old label tags spanning over 15K files.  Is
> there any CVS mechanism to remove more than one label tag at a time?  I
> realize I could create a simple script to call "cvs rtag" for each tag to be
> removed.  Unfortunately, that would lock our entire source tree for 3 hours
> for each tag being removed.  I'm looking for a more efficient solution.

One per night from a cron job?  It'll be done by New Years :-)

Seriously, you might be able to use:
        cvs admin -ntag1 -ntag2 -ntag3 ...
and then clean up CVSROOT/val-tags by hand.

I haven't tried it, so be careful.  Especially, I'm not sure if
it'll find files in the Attic (or otherwise not present in the
current sandbox).

Or hack rtag to do it.  Doesn't need to be a submittable patch
with test cases and all if you only need it once...

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