Re: Buglet when building Gtk-perl from cvs

[muppet <scott asofyet org>]

On Tuesday, November 18, 2003, at 05:25 AM, Peter Haworth wrote:

> On 17 Nov 2003 08:01:48 -0500, muppet wrote:
> > heh, yeah, that got committed to the wrong branch by accident; i
> > couldn't remember if branching sets the sticky tag in your working
> > copy.  answer: it doesn't.
>
> It does if you tell it to. "cvs update -r $branch" makes the tags 
> sticky.
> The same applies to "checkout", too.

yes, but "cvs tag -b $branch" does not offer such an option -- you must 
update to get the sticky tag, because tag works on the repository.  
that's what bit me.

i would love to be told (accurately :-) that's not true...

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