What's the current 5.4 tag?

Dan Nelson dnelson at allantgroup.com
Tue Mar 29 09:56:26 PST 2005


In the last episode (Mar 29), Clint Olsen said:
> I tried RELENG_5_4 and cvsup wiped out my entire source repository since
> ths tag doesn't exist.  This seems like a silly thing to do - blasting the
> entire archive if a tag doesn't exist.  Why not error out instead?

You can add the "-d ##" flag to cvsup, which will cause it to error out
after deleting ## files.  cvsup doesn't really know if a tag doesn't
exist until it has walked the entire CVS repo.

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com


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