Re: Trying to emulate moving tags under CVS and update working copy to that tag.

On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 08:29:39AM +1000, Ed Hillmann wrote:
> We have a release process for our software that, once
> the release in compiled, creates a tag to mark the
> code used for the release. We had to have the ability
> to re-tag the release if we re-released some software
> after a fix was required.
>
> I think this is the same as moving a tag. To do this,
> we simply deleted the tag from the tags directory, and
> then copied the new fileset to the new tag (with the
> same name).
>
> This works quite well for us. Conceptually, it's the
> same as moving the tag. You don't want to remember
> where the old tag was pointing to before. You can
> still get at it using the @REVISION syntax if you need
> to.

It is true that we can forget the old name (we probably shouldn't be
doing that though), but the problem comes with defining the files for
the new tag. It sounds like you already have a branch whose HEAD is
always the tagged release. In this case we don't necessarily have
that. Feel free to correct me if I am wrong.

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				-- rouilj
John Rouillard
System Administrator
Renesys Corporation
603-643-9300 x 111
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