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Re: Repairing erroneous move of setup-200303 branch tag
Robert Collins wrote:
> Earnie Boyd wrote:
>> Robert Collins wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> No, I used:
>>>
>>> $ cvs -z4 tag -Fb setup-200303
>>> in a setup-200303-troubleshooting working dir.
>>>
>>
>> Which intuitively says ...? This should not have updated the cvs
>> repository. It would have been commits at a later date that would have
>> updated the repository. The ``tag'' updates the working directory with
>> the ``rtag'' updates the cvs repository with the tag.
>
> Well, the commit only listed the Changelog as being committed, so chalk
> another point up for CVS not being clear.
Tags do go directly to the repository. The commit really did only change the
ChangeLog.
Max.