Re: Branches without a magic branch number

[Jon Smirl]

On 6/17/06, Rick Genter <address@hidden> wrote:
> Is it possible that some sort of tool used in the Mozilla release/build
> process deletes these tags? Also, how can you tell which user caused the tag
> to be removed? ("It has happened 680 times by a lot of different people.")

The branches were created by a lot of different people. I don' know
who is losing the the tags. If deleting a tag generated a log entry I
could track down where it is happening.

>  Our internal repository, while only 3 years old and only a few hundred MB,
> has about 100 branches and maybe 500-600 tags and we've yet to "lose" one.
> Given how prevalent CVS is in the world, I find it difficult to believe that
> there would be a bug that would cause it to spontaneously remove magic
> branch tags...

How do you know you haven't lost one? You have to remember that you
made the branch in the first place since, it isn't in the logs. You
would not know about the unnamed branch until you tried to get to it
and found the name tags were missing.

Most of the missing tags are in the older parts of the repository.
Could an old version of the CVS tools been doing it? Did the tools
allow the creation of magic branches without labels at some point?
Another idea is that the tags were somehow created locally and never
got pushed to the repository.

I have no clue right now when the tags went missing or if they were
never there in the first place. I can't see any pattern to why some
are missing and others are not.

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Jon Smirl
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