Re: Repairing erroneous move of setup-200303 branch tag

[Robert Collins <rbcollins at cygwin dot com>]

Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 09:01:53AM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
>
> > Max Bowsher wrote:
> >
> >
> > > I request cvsadmin membership so I can continue the cleanup from this 
> > > stage,
> >
> > I can't grant this (unless it's a cvs repository specific thing)..
> >
> > Can you work with a local copy of the modules and sync it up afterwards?
>
>
> Wait.  What is the motivation for this change?  

I used cvs tag to move a branch, which did not do what intuition 
suggested it would.

> Shorter version numbers?

More accurate metadata is the reason I ok'd Max's suggestion. Version 
number, phwa.

> How did we get in this state?  Why not just check out a fresh version of
> setup, create a branch, and then check in the contents of the current
> branch?  Or check out a version based on a given date and then create
> the branch.

Because of CVS limitations, this won't rectify the problem. There is a 
branch in setup, which has no name, but is the original setup-200303 
branch.  AFAIK one cannot retrieve that branch at all now, unless Max 
does his magic.

Rob