cvs tag renaming after repo copy

[John E Hein]

Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote at 14:58 +0100 on Feb 28, 2008:
 > "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon at FreeBSD.org> writes:
 > > John Polstra has made a script (Fixtags) for it which we use for the
 > > FreeBSD repository.  I don't think he has any problems with it being
 > > distributed, but as it doesn't have a copyright statement i just want
 > > to ask before I distribute it...
 > 
 > Uh...  I wrote a replacement for that in 2001 (~des/bin/fixtags.pl).
 > I'm surprised you still use John's version, which is excruciatingly
 > slow, since 1) it's a shell script, 2) it's a *recursive* shell script,
 > 3) it runs rcs twice for every modified tag.
 > 
 > My version was under 3-clause BSD; I just switched it to 2-clause.

Sounds nice.  But for those of us aren't in the club and don't have a
freefall account (or wherever home dirs reside these days) ... ?