[cvsnt] Re: build 2040 tag problem

Mark Levedahl noone at nospam.net
Wed Jul 27 11:42:43 BST 2005


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Tony Hoyle wrote:
> Mark Levedahl wrote:
> Why would you do that?
Because I made a mistake, hit cr by accident before typing the file name.

> 
> It seems like one of those things that should be disallowed, since it 
> makes no sense to do it (except in the rare case where every single file 
> in a directory was always updated at the same time... not sure if that 
> case is worth worrying about).

But, the code let me do it then gave me no way to recover using the cvs 
client: it should not be possible to put the sandbox into an illegal 
state using cvs itself. The correct fix may be to disallow using a 
numeric tag at the directory level, allowing numeric tags only for files.



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