rebuilding from old cvs tags

[Mike Bonnet]

On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 13:45 -0500, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 18:24:59 +0000
> Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:
> 
> > I've used it after I've done a "make tag" whilst forgetting to commit
> > changes first, so the tag was applied to the wrong version of the spec
> > file etc. Force tagging is useful for correcting this error.
> 
> Couldn't that be solved by making 'make tag' abort if there are
> unchecked in files in the dir, particularly .spec ?

It already should.  "make tag" uses "cvs tag -c".

$ cvs -H tag
Usage: cvs tag [-bcdFflR] [-r rev|-D date] tag [files...]
<snip>
        -c      Check that working files are unmodified.