Well! In this case the best thing to do is to use a GUI which will enable you to select the required files or dseselect the files which are not required.
On GNU/Linux clients gCVS is a very good option and WinCVS is the best for Windows. You can get both from http://www.wincvs.org Gagneet >-----Original Message----- >From: Andy Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Friday, 26 March, 2004 16:01 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: RE: cvs tag: some slightly counterintuitive behaviour > > > >>Why can't you just choose the files you want to tag and run the TAG >>command only on those. This way only those files get tagged >and not the >>complete module, which is not want you as it is want to happen. > >Because I have 12,766 files, and I want to tag all but about >30 of them. Working out which 30 is a long and laborious >process of checking by hand. It would have been nice if I >could have just worried about getting the sandbox to a given >state and then tagging that state. > >What I'll end up doing is compiling a list of the 30 as I go >along, tagging everything and then doing something like: > >cat badlist.txt | xargs cvs tag -d <tag> > >As I said, it's not really a big deal, just a small surprise. > > _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs