Re: bug report: tag is deleted by mistake

[Larry Jones]

Derek Price writes:
> 
> Sam Louis wrote:
> >>>    cvs up -r tagname a.txt
> >>>    cvs rm -rf a.txt
> >>>    cvs ci a.txt
> > 
> > I think  that this operation should be  forbidden, don't u think this ?
> 
> It most certainly shouldn't be forbidden, though an argument might be 
> made for marking the file "dead" on the branch and leaving the tag in 
> place.

I think that *is* what happens if the tag is a branch tag; deleting the
tag only happens when it's a revision tag.  There is an argument for
refusing to allow the commit of the delete the same way we refuse to
allow commit of changes in that case, but we've always been leary of
changing the way it works since someone somewhere might be depening on
it.
-- 
Larry Jones

I told her to expect you to deny everything. -- Calvin