On Wednesday 05 December 2001 16:28, Jerry Nairn wrote: > > From: Arcin Bozkurt - Archie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 11:10 AM > > > > Are the modifications that I am planning to make dangerous? > > > > 1. Copy a directory into another directory > > /cvsroot/a goes to /cvsroot/OtherModule/SubDir/a for example. > > This should be fine. Depending on why you're doing this, you may want to > then delete the old tags from this new location using > > cvs rtag -d <old_tag_name> OtherModule/SubDir/a
My intention was actually to "move" that directory. The tags that I had in the old location, will continue to exist in the new directory (I assume) and I want to keep those tags. > > 2. Manuall edit a 'file,v' to associate a new tag with an old > > version. > > There's no reason to do this at all, ever. Look at the -r and -F options to > tag and rtag. Even if I don't understand exactly what you mean, I can't > think of anything you could possibly be talking about that can't be done > with ordinary cvs commands. YES! you both are right, I can do it by cvs tag -r1.5 tagname filename (assuming the version i want to tag is 1.5) > > 3. Remove some directories, that were created by mistake. > > That's probably okay, if no one is using these accidental directories. The > problems that would be created, if any, would be for checked out copies of > these directories. yeah, as Larry said this should be safe... Thanks > Jerry _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
