Re: Problems with CVS TAG recursive

[Todd Denniston <Todd.Denniston@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

a1_nocrap_exh@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote, On 07/18/2008 06:59 AM:
> I want to do a tag of every file currently in a workarea so I tried to
> use:
>
> > cvs tag -R tag_name .
>
> However it exits the error:
>
> cvs [tag aborted]: could not chdir
>
> before it has finished tagging all the files.
>
> The reason is there is a directory in the CVS repository that I do not
> have in my work area and that I do not want to tag.
>
> Is there anyway round this? Some sort of option which makes TAG
> continue and not abort?

Have you tried with out the explicit '-R' and '.' ?
`cvs tag tag_name` should follow the same code path, and should tag everything 
in your sandbox (workarea).

if `cvs tag tag_name` or ``cvs tag -R tag_name` work for you, then A) you have 
a solution to your problem, and B) you need to let the CVS devs know that 
there is a problem with either explicitly setting the start path '.' or the 
way '-R' works, also an example script to setup a dummy repository and sandbox 
 with commands to demonstrate the pathology would be appreciated (see [1] for 
an example of such a script).

IIRC, I think one of my coders had a problem with one of the cvs commands a 
few years ago when they explicitly set the start path to '../' [2], this might 
be related.

of course after you get some more data, to tie everything up you should 
probably do something I did not... create a bug (verify there is no old one 
covering the same thing first) at[3].

Thanks.

[1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-cvs/2005-07/msg00031.html
[2] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-cvs/2005-07/msg00024.html
[3] http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/cvs/
    http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?group=cvs
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Todd Denniston
Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC Crane)
Harnessing the Power of Technology for the Warfighter