[cvsnt] Feature request: Commitable tags

[Tuomas Huhtanen]

Tony Hoyle wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Apr 2003 09:30:17 +0300, Tuomas Huhtanen
> <tuomas.huhtanen at vertex.fi> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>>0) You have checked out files with some sticky tag (e.g. ct_R1), and are 
>>about to commit the changes made to the files.
>>
>>1) Extract the revision number of file to be commited. (e.g 1.1.2.2)
>>2) Extract the branch number from the revision number (e.g 1.1.2)
>>3) Force commit to the branch number (1.1.2)
>>4) Move the tag to the new revision (ct_R1->1.1.2.3)
>>5) Update the local copy to the moved tag
>>
>>This would do it, but not atomically of course. The other thing is that 
>>then I'm bound to specific client of cvs. And third, that would be quite 
>>slow.
>>
> 
> Well step 3 at least doesn't make sense - you can't force a commit to a
> version number that already exists (especially not a branch).  Really what
> you're doing is:

Actually the 1.1.2 is not the revision of the file but the branch. You 
can check out file with the branch number if you want to and you can 
also commit to that branch number. Normally it does not make sense, though.

Tuomas