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Maybe I'm being a bit thick here, but why don't you just do a single commit (or tag) from the top level directory? -Torsten ----- Original Message ----- From: "Zazueta, Robert" <RZazueta at academyart.edu> To: <cvsnt at cvsnt.org cvsnt downloads at march-hare.com @CVSNT on Twitter CVSNT on Facebook> Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 02:17 Subject: [cvsnt] Marking files as changed en masse. > This is sort of a general "Best practices" question. I have used CVS to > maintain files for websites for quite some time. In these situations, you > often have a ton of code that is all tied together (i.e. headers, footers, > body pages, code libraries, etc.) but live in different parts of the drive > and may all need to be changed at once. Or, as another example, you > sometimes need to add something to several pages at once, but don't want to > commit or tag them until all the work has been done for fear of breaking the > build. > > How do you keep track of all of the files you've changed? I use WinCVS and > I'm beginning to wish for a function that will allow me to make something > like a "local tag" that I can attach to a series of files, then tell CVS to > commit or tag or whatever all of them in one fell swoop. Is there a way to > do something like this now in standard CVS? Does CVSNT support that? > Anything has to be better than writing the files down on a pad of paper and > crossing my fingers.