Removing a tag from a deleted file

[Daniel Watt]

Hi all,

I have a question about using rtag -a, or some other method to remove a tag from a deleted file.

For the project I am working on, our promotion process goes something like this:

PROD_VERSION_OLD is the tag on every version that makes it to
production. When we do a build, have a tag that contains only updated
files, which gets merged with the previous production version. The new
tag is PROD_VERSION_NEW (NEW = OLD +1). This is accomplished by doing
the following:

1) cvs rtag -r UPDATED_TAG PROD_VERSION_NEW OUR_REPO
2) cvs rtag -r PROD_VERSION_OLD PROD_VERSION_NEW OUR_REPO

If there was a deleted file, the second command keeps putting the new
tag on the deleted file. I am looking for a way to stop propagating
tags on deleted files.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

Daniel Watt
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