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RE: Removal of tagged files


From: Chris Cameron
Subject: RE: Removal of tagged files
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 14:52:35 +1200

It is scenario 1 and we're on 1.10.7.  I'll look at getting appropriate
updates.  Thanks for the info.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden Behalf Of
> Eric Siegerman
> Sent: Tuesday, 12 June 2001 6:44 a.m.
> To: Infocvs
> Subject: Re: Removal of tagged files
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 11:46:29AM +1200, Chris Cameron wrote:
> > We've had the experience of cvs allowing files to be removed from a
> > non-branch tag!
>
> Do you mean by this:
>   1. cvs update -r release-tag file; cvs rm file
>   2. cvs tag -d release-tag file
>   3. something else?
>
> If (1), update your CVS.  It prevents this at least from 1.10.8.
> If (3), please clarify...
>
> As for (2):
> > You can't modify files on a non-branch tag, but you can
> > remove!
>
> That you can't modify them isn't because that's been deemed a Bad
> Thing, but because it's simply impossible -- the underlying RCS
> doesn't permit you to modify an existing revision in-place.
>
> Deleting a tag clearly is possible.  I can see your point that
> some shops might want to prevent just anyone (or anyone at all,
> for that matter) from doing it, but CVS is generally pretty lax
> about per-user permissions; it depends on underlying file-system
> permissions to give a coarse level of control, but that's about
> it.  I believe there are patches floating around that claim to
> give you a finer-grained permission scheme (but whether they let
> you control this particular action, I wouldn't know).  Search the
> list archives for references.
>
> --
>
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> |-_|/  >   Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.        address@hidden
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