Re: Removing a file from an existing tag

On Wed, 1 Apr 2009 15:57:31 +0530, nitesh bansal
<[email protected]> wrote:

>Hello All,
>
>I am using CVS to maintain my project.I have applied many tags on my code to
>differentiate between different versions.The mistake i made that i checked
>in binary files which are consuming lots of space.I want to remove the
>binary files from the CVS but dont want any change in revision history and
>the tags applied.Please suggest me the best way to do it.
>

CVS does not work like that. There is no tag that contains files,
instead files have "tag" property values.

If you set a tag across a sandbox then all files will store that tag
at the precise revision number they hold at the moment. At a later
time if you update to this tag you will get back all files to the
revision they held at the time the tag was applied. Consider a tag as
a snapshot in time.

If you really do want to get rid of the binary files from now on then
you can simply do a CVS remove on them and commit. THis works only if
you are currently on HEAD or on the tip of a branch. Then they will be
gone from your future sandboxes unless you update to a tag name, in
which case the old binaries will reappear.

Notice that if you work with branches the approach will be slightly
different because a file may be CVS removed on one branch while still
existing on another.

-- 

/Bo
(Bo Berglund, developer in Sweden)
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