Re: Tagging a branch for a given date

[Larry Jones]

Christopher Randall writes [using very long lines]:
> 
> So, I tried checking out along the branch, by using a specific date:
> 
> cvs checkout -D "2002-02-15 17:46 PST" -r Whitney_maintenance_branch whitney
> 
> This works just fine, but then when I try to use the "tag" command as
> follows, the MOST RECENT VERSIONS of the files on the branch are tagged,
> not the versions of the files THAT ARE IN MY LOCAL DIRECTORIES.
> 
> cvs tag -r Whitney_maintenance_branch TPAS_1_1_1

That's what you told it to do.  Tag with no -r or -D options tags the
revision you have checked out -- that's what you want to do.  Instead,
you said "-r branch", which tells CVS to tag the most recent revision on
the branch rather than the revision you have checked out.

-Larry Jones

Wow, how existential can you get? -- Hobbes