grant.schoep wrote: > At 09:50 AM 9/9/2006, you wrote: > >Our CVS source has grown for the past 2-3 years and we have a lot of > >tags with different names / naming conventions. (around 200 tags, that > >it is becoming difficult to manage) > > > >In order to clean it up, we are thinking of renaming all tags based on > >the date it was created. Something like: <project>_<date_of_creation> > > > >First of all, is this something advisable - renaming all tags in CVS. > >Is this doable? Can someone help me with the command to use to rename > >all tags in CVS. > > > >Also, one basic question, we have always tagged the entire project > >structure and it takes like 10+ minutes to complete. Is it possible to > >tag just a subfolder within the project? > > > I've done things kind of like this, I wouldn't doubt there is a better way. > But I've checked out based on a tag, deleted that tag, and the recursivly > retagged with new. Its a pain to do, probably worse on large projects. More > complex things is usually where I get down and dirty and write scripts to > muck with the actual ,v files in CVSROOT.
So do u mean, there is no OOTB way of renaming tags in CVS? Thanks, Anoop _______________________________________________ info-cvs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
