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On Wed, 8 Jun 2005 14:25:32 -0700, Bryce Schober <bryce.schober at gmail.com> wrote: >I have a respository filesystem tree that was tagged from a corrupted >working copy which resulted in many files / subdirectories missing >from the tag. How can I find the exact datetime of the tag so that I >can reconstruct it? I realize that operation could theoretically be >incorrect, but I'd like to try... Unfortunately AFAICT tags carry no timestamp, they are just an extra line of text added to the RCS file header with a revision pointer. Here is an example from a test file in a test repository I usually check CVSNT versions on: head 1.23; access; symbols Branch_Alias:1.21.2.1 TestTag_Build_1884:1.23 Branch_MergeTest:1.21.0.2 CVSNT_2-0-62-1859-test:1.13 Tag_for_CVSNT1852:1.12 Tag_CVSNT2-0-62-1810:1.9 Tag_Test2_CVSNT2-0-51d:1.9 Tag_Test_CVSNT2-0-51d:1.9 Tag_Test_With_1-5-1-32:1.9 Branch_Test:1.7.0.2; locks; strict; comment @# @; Next are the various revision text entries. Notice how the tags are just a list of symbols and the corresponding revision numbers, no dates anywhere.... /Bo (Bo Berglund, developer in Sweden)