Re: [boost] Release procedures?

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-01-22 10:38:52

At 09:25 AM 1/22/2002, Steve M. Robbins wrote:

 >> Much later: Oh, I think I see your problem with this. If you move a tag 

 >and
 >> forget where it came from there's no easy way to put it back.
 >
 >Yes, exactly.

Was there a reason the release manager didn't just retag to recover?

 >> > [Some folks in our lab got burned by similar tag-moving
 >> > procedures.]
 >>
 >> What, exactly, was the problem?
 >
 >As you guessed, they moved tags around inadvertently and didn't
 >remember where they came from.  Remember that command-line cvs
 >commands are recursive by default, so if you type
 >
 >	cvs tag -F blah
 >rather than
 >	cvs tag -F blah file.cpp
 >
 >then you've just moved tag "blah" *on the entire subtree*!
 >
 >That's the kind of slip that got made here, as I understand it.

Ah!  That kind of slip is probably a bit less likely using one of the GUI 
interfaces to CVS.

 >That's why I'm scared to death of moving tags, or doing any "editing"
 >kind of CVS operation, e.g. "cvs admin".  Then again, I'm not a Boost
 >author, so discount my words as you see fit.

No, I'm listening closely.  Prior experience always of interest.  Thanks.

--Beman