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Thanks Derek, I hadn't realized you could perform the same function with "cvs admin" (I did wonder about the availability of a simple "rename" function). BTW, where does one find descriptions of these options - none of the obvious documentation links illustrate them (neither "rtag -A" nor "admin -n")? Regards, -David > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > The problem you are looking for may be deeper that you think. I have > a report that `cvs admin -nNEW:OLD' (which is supposed to alias tags > in the same way as your `cvs rtag -A -r OLD NEW') against a CVSNT > server breaks in the same manner. Someone may have broken the > underlying logic in the RCS code called for both these commands. > > Regards, > > Derek > > David Hauck wrote: > > | Hi Tony, > | > | I just tried to do this with the 2.5.01 client (against our 2.0.58d > | server) and this also didn't work as expected (V1_1_BRANCH_OLD > | appears as 1.81.4.2 instead of 1.81.0.4). So it looks like all of > | my options have been exhausted. > | > | Am I right in assuming then that alias tags as a whole are broken, > | and that they've been broken for some time? > | > | Regards, -David > | > |> David Hauck wrote: > |> > |>> To confirm, my original command was: > |>> > |>> cvs -q rtag -A -r V1_1_BRANCH V1_1_BRANCH_OLD mymodule > |>> > |> Hmm.. looking at the original 58d code it looks like it wasn't > |> sending the -A to the server properly. That was fixed a while > |> ago, so you could either use a 2.5.01 client or use 2.0.58d > |> locally to create your alias tags. > |> > |> Tony _______________________________________________ cvsnt > |> mailing list cvsnt at cvsnt.org > |> http://www.cvsnt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cvsnt > | > | > | _______________________________________________ cvsnt mailing list > | cvsnt at cvsnt.org http://www.cvsnt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cvsnt cvsnt downloads at march-hare.com https://www.march-hare.com/cvspro/en.asp#downcvs @CVSNT on Twitter CVSNT on Facebook > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (Cygwin) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFCKK0gLD1OTBfyMaQRAgXWAKC8BcIZsZEmNcWo9q4xYep/zThdngCffZRJ > B2PRB35JfrvALoV9PTvc0XI= > =XWR2 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > >