Re: cvs tag renaming after repo copy

Amol Dharmadhikar i ???? ?? ???? ????? wrote at 11:47 -0800 on Feb 27, 2008:
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 11:21 AM, John Hein <jhein@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I don't want to move the tag... I want to invalidate old tags by
renaming them to something else (like foo-1-2-3 -> old_foo-1-2-3).

Note that just using cvs to rename a tag (by tagging with the new name
and then removing the former name) has issues when you try to do that
with branch tags.
[*]

Anyway, I'm pretty sure the FreeBSD cvs-meisters run something to
invalidate tags after doing a repo copy. That's the information I was
looking for.


I dont think you can rename tags using a single command. What you can
do instead is create a new tag at the same point as the old tag, and
then delete the old tag.

eg -
cvs rtag -r old-foo-1-2-3 new-foo-1-2-3 <module_name>
cvs rtag -d old-foo-1-2-3 <module_name>

Yes, I mentioned that above [*].
You can't do that with branch tags.
You can use cvs admin -n or -N with branch tags.

Anyway, I'm wondering if anyone has a script which iterates over
existing tags and renames them to old_*. Maybe that will make
it more clear what I'm looking for?

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