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RE: cvs tag: some slightly counterintuitive behaviour
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Carucci, Jason |
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RE: cvs tag: some slightly counterintuitive behaviour |
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Thu, 25 Mar 2004 12:27:23 -0500 |
No, I believe cvs will tag the files in the repository, the files in your
working directory are irrelevant for this operation.
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Andy Jones
Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 11:52 AM
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Subject: cvs tag: some slightly counterintuitive behaviour
I've found some behaviour of cvs tag that breaks the principal of least
astonishment - at least, for me.
In short: cvs tag doesn't tag the files in the working directory, it tags
the files it thinks are there.
I'm preparing a release. Some of the code is questionable - I don't know if
it is dead or not but it certainly does not want to be part of the release.
So I've been deleting these files from the working directory.
Now I come to make a release tag. My expectation is that since cvs tag
requires a working directory then it will operate on that working directory,
tagging the files in it but *not* the files I have removed.
It doesn't, though. It tags all the files it thinks should be in the
working dir, whether they are there or not.
Any thoughts? I think that at the very least this behaviour should be
spelled out more clearly in the manual.
[cvs 1.11.12 on Red Hat 7.1]
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- RE: cvs tag: some slightly counterintuitive behaviour, (continued)
- RE: cvs tag: some slightly counterintuitive behaviour, Gagneet Singh, 2004/03/26
- RE: cvs tag: some slightly counterintuitive behaviour, Andy Jones, 2004/03/26
- Re: cvs tag: some slightly counterintuitive behaviour, Sergei Organov, 2004/03/26
- Re: cvs tag: some slightly counterintuitive behaviour, Todd Denniston, 2004/03/26
- RE: cvs tag: some slightly counterintuitive behaviour, Gagneet Singh, 2004/03/26
- cvs tag: some slightly counterintuitive behaviour II, Andy Jones, 2004/03/29
- Re: cvs tag: some slightly counterintuitive behaviour II, Derek Robert Price, 2004/03/29
- Re: cvs tag: some slightly counterintuitive behaviour, Sergei Organov, 2004/03/26
- Re: cvs tag: some slightly counterintuitive behaviour, Larry Jones, 2004/03/26
Re: cvs tag: some slightly counterintuitive behaviour, Todd Denniston, 2004/03/25
RE: cvs tag: some slightly counterintuitive behaviour,
Carucci, Jason <=
RE: cvs tag: some slightly counterintuitive behaviour, Jim.Hyslop, 2004/03/25
Re: cvs tag: some slightly counterintuitive behaviour, Andy Jones, 2004/03/26
RE: cvs tag: some slightly counterintuitive behaviour, Jim.Hyslop, 2004/03/26
Re: cvs tag: some slightly counterintuitive behaviour, Andy Jones, 2004/03/30