[cvsnt] Feature request: Commitable tags

[Tony Hoyle]

On Tue, 29 Apr 2003 17:28:50 +0200, "Oliver Giesen" <ogware at gmx.net> wrote:


>So, if I understand you correctly I would be able to restore the tag by
>running something like
>
>  cvs tag -b -r 1.1.2 AccidentallyDeleted-BRANCH
>
>on each of the affected files and the branch would be back alive and
>kicking?

Yes.

>> That's pretty much it.  Of cource you have to force it with -B to do that,
>> too, so it's really hard to do accidentally.
>
>That must be new then. This "accident" happened years ago. I think we were
>even using <gasp> local mode to a network share back then.

The -B stuff was put in after Unix CVS implemented it (about 1.11.4 or
thereabouts).

Tony