rtag failing on cygwin-apps repo

[Max Bowsher]

Robert Collins wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-03-19 at 20:47, Max Bowsher wrote:
>> Robert Collins wrote:
>>> Max,
>>> you seem quite familiar with CVS... do you have any insight why rtag
>>> would assert? I suspected it might be the modules config for setup,
>>> and tried a few variations thereof, but removing the &libgetopt++
>>> didn't correct it...
>>
>> Curious. Can you post the exact failing command?
>>
>> I successfully executed (on a *copy* of the repo :-)
>>
>> $ cvs rtag -b setup-testtag setup
>
> cvs -z4 rtag -b setup-200303 setup
>
> Which is now tagged by a normal tag :[.

It seems you've fixed this in the repo.

Is it OK to commit stuff now?

> Gives a 1 page assert.
>
> As does:
> cvs -z4 -d rbcollins at cygwin.com:/cvs/cygwin-apps -r setup-200303 -d
> setup-200303 setup

I've been unable to reproduce this.

I have seen asserts before, but only when trying to use cvs rlog - which is
understandable, since the version of cvs on s.r.c doensn't support rlog.

Max.