Re: Info-cvs Digest, Vol 31, Issue 27

[Derrick Bass]

On Jun 17, 2005, at 7:12 AM, address@hidden wrote:

> - FOR each "file" DO:
>     - cvs log "file"
>     - grep the branch name out of the output of the above
>       (for example, you get something like
>          "    branch: 1.164.0.14"
>     - Get the number from above and remove the "0" and the number  
> after
>       it. This is the base where the branch was created. For example,
>       here, we get "1.164"
>     - Now, tag the file on this revision:
>       cvs tag TAGNAME -r 1.164 "file"
Good suggestion. This essentially worked, except for deleted files,  
but that turns about to irrelevant to my particular case. The only  
issue is the syntax of cvs tag:
cvs tag -r revnum TAGNAME "file"

Thanks!

Derrick