Re: Tag a Repository without having to check out first.

[email protected] Thu, 11 Jul 2013 13:21:32 -0700 (PDT)
Newsgroups gmane.comp.version-control.cvs.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tuesday, July 9, 2013 1:00:13 PM UTC-7, [email protected] wrote:
> Is this a way to tag and entire repository structure without having to check it out first.  We have a huge repository about 2GB of data at a remote site. Running a old verion of CVS 1.11.23.  Yeah I know its old, but i cant do anything about it.
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> cvs tag <tag_name> :pserver:[email protected]:/usr/local/cvsroot/<project> 
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> Thanks

Thanks for the info, very close

Here is what worked for me. This also assumes recursive

cvs -d :pserver:<username>:<password>@<server>:<path_to_repo> rtag <tag_name> <directory_being_tagged>