Re: changing vendor, release tags

Larry Jones <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.version-control.cvs.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Henricus J. Holtman writes:
> 
> Now I wish to
> retroactively amend those project entries, and make it look like I had a
> unified vendor-tag, and a unified release tag to start with.

Why?  What difference does it make?

> How would I
>  do this?  I can see in the various ,v files a line starting with symbols
> that lists the vendor-tag and release-tag info I used for that particular
> file.  Can I just alter these with sed to my new ones, or will this break
> something?

You *could* do that, but it's really not a good idea to mess with the
contents of the RCS files directly unless you really have to.  In this
case, you can use cvs admin -n to create new tags that are aliases of
the existing tags and then delete the old tags (either with cvs tag or
cvs admin -n).
-- 
Larry Jones

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