Repairing erroneous move of setup-200303 branch tag
Robert Collins
rbcollins@cygwin.com
Wed Apr 2 22:29:00 GMT 2003
Max Bowsher wrote:
> The setup-200303 branch tag has been inadvertantly moved, leaving the
> original branch untagged and inaccessible, and also giving rise to the
> insanely long version number assigned to the current setup snapshot.
>
> I've inspected the RCS files, and can restore the setup-200303 to it's
> correct location - but I will need to directly edit the RCS files.
> (Obviously I will do a test run on a local copy of the repository first).
>
> Advantages:
> * Repository would be less confusing to someone inspecting it at a later
> date.
> * We can have a less silly version number for our next release setup.
> * Simple tidyness.
>
> Disadvantages:
> * I'll need to lock the relevant directories (setup and libgetopt++) for
> about 15 minutes
>
>
> Comments?
Go for it. I didn't realise CVS was so broken.
Rob
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