Re: Removing sticky tag 'HEAD' in cvs

[Frederic Brehm]

At 01:14 PM 6/4/2003, Eric Siegerman wrote:
> Occasionally one might want a sticky tag on HEAD -- probably not
> for an entire sandbox, but for a file or two.  This came up a
> couple of months ago:
>         http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/info-cvs/2003-04/msg00023.html
> (The only reason I didn't suggest typing exactly "-r HEAD" is
> that I didn't think of it at the time...)


Hmmm. Let me see if I understand this.

Typing the command

        cvs update -r HEAD file.c

will cause the following behavior (until the sticky tag is changed):

        1. Updating file.c from the repository will always work.
        2. Committing a changed file.c to the repository will never work.


So, how would I use it? For example, suppose I need to add some temporary 
code to a file for debugging or to make some kind of measurement. If I 
"update -r HEAD" then I can prevent the temporary code from accidently 
polluting the repository. When I'm done, remove the file and "update -A" 
(assuming there were no changes of value in the file).

Sweet!


Fred

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