rebuilding from old cvs tags

[Paul Howarth]

Mike Bonnet wrote:
> 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.

Well it's been a while since I last made that mistake ;-)

Paul.