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Re: Repairing erroneous move of setup-200303 branch tag
Robert Collins wrote:
> Max Bowsher wrote:
>>> Go for it. I didn't realise CVS was so broken.
>>
>>
>> Forgot to say in my last email:
>>
>> Do you recall the command you ran that caused this? Presumably something
>> like "cvs (r)tag -F". Or was it a script that went wrong? I see some
>> instances of cvs rtag -F in maint/cvsmerge. Did you use that script?
>
> No, I used:
>
> $ cvs -z4 tag -Fb setup-200303
> in a setup-200303-troubleshooting working dir.
Ah right.
> because, rtag is broken with sources.redhat.com's cvs on this repository.
Oh yes, the 2 page assertion failiure.
I can't imagine why it doesn't work for you. It works for me, testing on a
copy of the repository into my home dir *on sources.redhat.com*. You can't
get any closer to reproducing the situation than that, without actually
touching the real repository.
Max.