Re: tag vs rtag question

2002-10-23 Thread Nick Patavalis
On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 02:24:47PM -0700, Shankar Unni wrote: > > The problem was, if one of the files was *deleted* on the branch, cvs > tag wouldn't move the tag for that file - you'd have to use cvs rtag for > it. The developer in question had done separate "cvs rm"s on the > mainline and the b

RE: tag vs rtag question

2002-10-23 Thread Shankar Unni
, October 23, 2002 2:13 PM To: Shankar Unni Cc: 'CVS-II Discussion Mailing List' Subject: Re: tag vs rtag question On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 01:58:27PM -0700, Shankar Unni wrote: > > I would think that with the situation above, doing a cvs tag > > VENDOR_R2_MERGED in the work

Re: tag vs rtag question

2002-10-23 Thread Nick Patavalis
On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 01:58:27PM -0700, Shankar Unni wrote: > > I would think that with the situation above, doing a cvs tag > > VENDOR_R2_MERGED in the working directory where conflict resolution > > was finished would be the safest method, to be sure you tagged the > > resolved files and not

RE: tag vs rtag question

2002-10-23 Thread Shankar Unni
> I would think that with the situation above, doing a cvs tag > VENDOR_R2_MERGED in the working directory where conflict resolution > was finished would be the safest method, to be sure you tagged the > resolved files and not something else. On the other hand, if you have *deleted* a file, cvs

Re: tag vs rtag question

2002-10-23 Thread Nick Patavalis
On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 11:02:10PM +0300, Nick Patavalis wrote: > > ...Though I also have some confused ideas about what exactly HEAD > means. Could please a CVS guru give us a precise *definition* of what > the HEAD tag is? > Looking arround I find this which comes close to being a precise defin

Re: tag vs rtag question

2002-10-23 Thread Nick Patavalis
On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 01:49:36PM -0500, Todd Denniston wrote: > Nick Patavalis wrote: > > > > You merge the local changes > > > > cvs co -j VENDOR_R1 -j VENDOR_R2 > > > > You resolve the confilicts, test the new sources, and generaly make > > sure that everything is stable. Then commit your