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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: KOFFICE_1_3_BRANCH: koffice/filters/kontour
From:       Nicolas Goutte <nicolasg () snafu ! de>
Date:       2003-12-29 21:33:56
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On Monday 29 December 2003 12:58, Thomas Zander wrote:
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> On Monday 29 December 2003 11:28, Nicolas Goutte wrote:
> > > untagging is 'cvs tag -d TAGNAME FILENAME'
> >
> > The CVS info page tells that you cannot delete a branch tag this way.
> > However you can force it with -B (with caution warnings in the doc).
> >
> > On the other side, the doc about cvs remove *does* tell that it only
> > deletes "on the branch which you are working on".
>
> The point is not that the command got the desired effect; the point is that
> the files should never have been in the branch and therefor the removal of
> the branch is the right thing to do.
>
> Why:
> if I update to 25-dec (cvs up -D "25 dec 2003") I get those files back.
> That is undesirable.
> If I join the branches (cvs up -j BRANCHNAME) the effect is also not quite
> what I want.
>
> But as I said in my initial email; _next_ time, so lets not discuss cvs
> stuff here :-)

CVS is about keeping history. Those files were branched, distributed as RC2 
and so on. So why do you want to delete history?

>
> - --
> Thomas Zander

Have a nice day!

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