Re: permanent tag

[Steven W. Orr]

On Monday, Sep 26th 2005 at 16:01 -0500, quoth Julian Opificius:

=>Jim Hyslop wrote:
=>> Steven W. Orr wrote:
=>> 
=>> > It doesn't matter. Taginfo was created just for this purpose.
=>> 
=>> 
=>> On this list, I have found that many times, what people _think_ they want
=>> and what they actually need are two different things.
=>> 
=>You're telling me ;-)
=>
=>> Julian, I read your response and I agree that this is one time you really do
=>> want to prevent the tag from being moved. As Steven said, you can use
=>> taginfo for this; see
=>> http://ximbiot.com/cvs/manual/cvs-1.11.20/cvs_18.html#SEC179
=>> 
=>
=>
=>Thanks for the info, Jim. Looking at this I clearly have some work to do. I
=>must admit I was really hoping for a native feature.
=>
=>Thanks, all.
=>
=>julian.

I bet you can do it in just a few lines of shell or perl.

if [ $1 != admin ]
then
    echo "You cahnt doodat"
    exit 1
fi

Then just add it to the taginfo file.

DEFAULT /path/to/taginfo/hook/tagallower ${USER}

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