Re: CVS refuses to remove (branch) tag

[Derek Robert Price]

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Mark Jaffe wrote:

|I have a user who created a branch tag on a file and wishes to have it
removed. Nothing was committed to the branch. CVS refuses to delete the
tag. Is it because there was no commit to the branch? The message I get
from CVS (version
|1.11.9) is
|cvs tag: Not removing branch tag `cr-1577' from
'/home/cvsroot/internetservices/Ecare/html/care/MICCcontactForm.html,v'.


By default, since 1.11.2, CVS refuses to delete and move branch tags
unless you tell it you know that you are disturbing a branch tag using
the `-B' option to tag or rtag.  This is because disturbing branch tags
is usually a VERY VERY VERY etc. bad idea.  If you are really certain
that the branch has never been used then it shouldn't be a big deal to
delete it.

Derek

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