[cvsnt] Re: tag versus rTag

[Dan Pupek]

Thanks. I do have one more question I have tagged a false module (defined in
the modules file)  and it worked fine on all the files that were defined
under it. I then tried using the -F option on TAG and it did not seem to
MOVE anything. I have even tried this on single modules with no luck.

Am I mis-understanding the function of the -F option? Also, what is a sticky
tag?

Thanks,

Dan Pupek
Software Engineer
Advanced Systems Technology, Inc
dpupek at astpcola.com <mailto:dpupek at astpcola.com>
(850) 475-4038


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From: cvsnt-bounces at cvsnt.org [mailto:cvsnt-bounces at cvsnt.org]On Behalf
Of Oliver Giesen
Sent: Friday, June 11, 2004 8:51 AM
To: cvsnt at cvsnt.org
Subject: [cvsnt] Re: tag versus rTag


Dan Pupek wrote:

> I want to use a tag that will ocasionally be moved forward. What is the
best
> option tag or rTag?
>
> I don't completely understand how they each work differently.

They don't really work differently (apart from the fact that rtag gets
logged in the history file, while tag doesn't). They just take matter
from different points of view:

Tag works on what is currently in your sandbox. This could for example
be useful if you want to put a tag on a set of files that has so far no
real other unifying relation. You could for instance pull individual
revisions from different branches or dates and then go and tag the lot
of them to mark them as a unity. This would not be possible as such
using rtag unless you tag each file individually.

RTag works strictly on modules, i.e. the server's point of view. It has
no knowledge about which branch you're currently working on or when you
have last updated your sandbox. If you don't explicitly tell it to do
otherwise it will apply the tag to HEAD (even though I've often seen it
fail to do even that on files that were initially added on a branch if
HEAD was not explicitly given - but that was before Tony deprecated the
Attic). One possible risk of tagging HEAD is that you cannot really be
sure you know what you're tagging as someone might have committed some
changes in the meantime...

Hope this helps.

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