Re: SUSPECT: Adding a Tag After the Fact

[Ted Stern]

Hi Larry,

The key issue here is that Jake wants to put the tag on a branch,
based on a date.  Simply updating to the date is not sufficient.
Besides, rtag can be *much* faster than update + tag, depending on the
speed of the network connection.

In 1.11.X versions, does rtag allow the -r and -D options to be used
together?  If so, which 1.11 versions support that?

 cvs rtag -r branchname -D "YYYY-mm-dd HH:MM" VERSION_TAGNAME modulename

I understand that there is a -r BRANCH:DATE option for rtag in newer
1.12.X versions, is that correct?  If so, how would you enter the
format for a date such as the one I entered above?

Ted

On 06 Feb 2008 09:55:10 -0800, Larry Jones wrote:
>
> Jake Colman writes:
>> 
>> We forgot to tag our release branch after the last two minor releases.  I now
>> need to rebuild the release prior to this.  So, for example, our branch was
>> tagged with XXX_5_1_RELEASE but was not tagged with XXX_5_1_1_RELEASE and
>> XXX_5_1_2_RELEASE.  If I know the dates that 5.1.1 and 5.1.2 were released,
>> how can I add those missing tags to the branch.
>
> You can select the revisions to tag by date with the -D option, but it's
> probably better to update your working directory to the desired date
> (with update -D) so you can double check that it has the exact revisions
> you want and then use a plain tag.
>
> -Larry Jones
>
> I must have been delirious from having so much fun. -- Calvin
>

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