CVS tag help needed

[Jens Petersen]

Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 16:54:51 -0400, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> 
> 
>>On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 02:47:58PM -0600, Orion Poplawski wrote:
>>
>>> $ make tag
>>>cvs tag: Pre-tag check failed
>>>cvs [tag aborted]: correct the above errors first!
>>>make: *** [tag] Error 1
>>>
>>>What's the best way out?
>>
>>Verify that tagging that way is what you really want and use
>>make force-tag instead.
> 
> That one is not available with Extras. Above situation can only
> be corrected with plain "cvs" and proper options. But be careful,
> please.

I haven't tried it yet but AFAICT "make tag TAG_OPTS=-F" does the equivalent
of "make force-tag" for core cvs.

I still think force-tag would be useful for Extras too though... comments?

Jens