[cvsnt] How to turn an erroneously set tag into a branch?

[Oliver Giesen]

"Victor A. Wagner, Jr." wrote:

> some year I'd like someone to explain WHY there are two 
> different kinds of 
> tags.
> I always thought it was kind of folly myself.

No, tags and branches make perfect sense IMO. Tags identify exact points 
in time while branches identify lines of development. Both are _very_ 
needed concepts.

BTW: I think I have now pinned my problem down to files in the Attic 
which still used my symbol as a tag instead of as a branch and which for 
some rreason did not get untagged. I have already deleted the tag from 
all Attic files in the respective directory but CVS still won't let me 
add the new files... do have to do this for the whole repository? 
There's about ten thousand files and almost 900 folders (including over 
a hundred Attics) in there. What would be the most effective way 
locating those Attic files with the erroneous tag in this case?
I already tried using cvs rtag -ad (as I ommitted the -B option I would 
have expected this to delete only the tags, not the branches) but this 
didn't seem to help. Logging also didn't really get me much further 
(also see my other thread on log quirks I discovered during the process) 
in identifying the culprit files...

Any more ideas?

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