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Re: Anyway to builk delete tags
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Donald Sharp |
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Re: Anyway to builk delete tags |
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Tue, 25 Feb 2003 17:09:01 -0500 |
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I generally hack together a quick and dirty shell script that
does this. Take your list and make sure that they are in a
file one per line. Load it up in vi( or your editor of choice )
and search and replace 1,$s/^/cvs rtag -d /. Run by /bin/sh <filename>
donald
On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 05:00:32PM -0500, Lynch, Harold wrote:
>
> We've had a repository running for quite a while now (3.5 years) and
> the list of tags is quite long. Most of the tags don't have any use any
> more and we have found that the output of status commands etc. is quite
> confiusing. So I have a list of about 1500 tags that the users would like
> removed. Now I ran a couple of tests and found that a cvs rtag -d <> command
> takes between 5 and 10 minutes on this repository.
>
> Has anyone come across a way of doing a "bulk" deletion of tags,
> maybe a perl script that walks the tree in the repository ?
>
> Also the repository has both text and binary files checked into it.
>
> Harold Lynch
>
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