cvs tag renaming after repo copy

[Amol Dharmadhikari अमोल धर्माधीकारी]

On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 11:21 AM, John Hein <jhein at timing.com> wrote:
> Giorgos Keramidas wrote at 21:04 +0200 on Feb 27, 2008:
>
>  > On 2008-02-27 08:36, John Hein <jhein at timing.com> wrote:
>   > > Can someone point me at a script that does tag renaming
>   > > after a repo copy?
>   >
>   > You don't really need a `script' to do this.
>   >
>   > Tags in CVS are not versioned, so you can force-tag the repo-copied
>   > files and move the tag to its new place.
>   >
>   > For example if you have two files:
>   >
>   >     foo.c,v
>   >     bar.c,v
>   >
>   > and bar.c,v is a repo-copy of foo.c,v then you move the tag only for the
>   > bar.c file by checking it out, and running:
>   >
>   >     cvs tag -f -r 1.2 bar.c
>  ------------------------^^^ you're missing the tag name in this example, but...
>
>  > This should force/move the tag to point revision 1.2.
>
>  I don't want to move the tag... I want to invalidate old tags by
>  renaming them to something else (like foo-1-2-3 -> old_foo-1-2-3).
>
>  Note that just using cvs to rename a tag (by tagging with the new name
>  and then removing the former name) has issues when you try to do that
>  with branch tags.
>
>  Anyway, I'm pretty sure the FreeBSD cvs-meisters run something to
>  invalidate tags after doing a repo copy.  That's the information I was
>  looking for.
>

I dont think you can rename tags using a single command. What you can
do instead is create a new tag at the same point as the old tag, and
then delete the old tag.

eg -
cvs rtag -r old-foo-1-2-3 new-foo-1-2-3 <module_name>
cvs rtag -d old-foo-1-2-3 <module_name>

Amol