Breaking "make tag"

[Michael Schwendt]

On Sat, 21 May 2005 20:59:57 +0200, Ralf Ertzinger wrote:

> Hi.
> 
> Michael Schwendt <bugs.michael at gmx.net> wrote:
> 
> > The tag did not exist on the actual files after a clean check-out here.
> > But now it does. It's possible to move such tags. Carefully though.
> 
> Does it exist because you made it, or did it appear from wherever it
> is that tags live?

The former.
 
> > Step 6) is because cvs tag -c is used to make sure the local working
> > copy is unmodified.
> 
> Is there a way to avoid this problem in the makefile?

Well, one could attempt at adding a safety check, e.g. analysing
"cvs status" or "cvs status -v", so that all files are reported as
Up-to-date. But somebody who commits into CVS can introduce other
mistakes.
 
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