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Re: changing vendor, release tags
From: |
Larry Jones |
Subject: |
Re: changing vendor, release tags |
Date: |
Tue, 4 May 2010 14:20:42 -0400 |
Henricus J. Holtman writes:
>
> Now I wish to
> retroactively amend those project entries, and make it look like I had a
> unified vendor-tag, and a unified release tag to start with.
Why? What difference does it make?
> How would I
> do this? I can see in the various ,v files a line starting with symbols
> that lists the vendor-tag and release-tag info I used for that particular
> file. Can I just alter these with sed to my new ones, or will this break
> something?
You *could* do that, but it's really not a good idea to mess with the
contents of the RCS files directly unless you really have to. In this
case, you can use cvs admin -n to create new tags that are aliases of
the existing tags and then delete the old tags (either with cvs tag or
cvs admin -n).
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Larry Jones
I hate being good. -- Calvin