Best Practice for retagging tags

[Jochen Schmitt]

On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 12:08:04 -0800, you wrote:

>Tags can be moved with the -F options (see cvs tag --help), though
>obviously you want to use that with care...

Thank you for your hint.

I have create a patch for Makefile.common which introduced a
'make retag' command. The advance of this command is, that you
don't have the need to figure out the tag name, if you need to
retag.

Best Regards:

Jochen Schmitt
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> retag::    $(SPECFILE) $(COMMON_DIR)/branches
> 	cvs tag $(TAG_OPTS) -c -F $(TAG)
> 	@echo "Tagged with: $(TAG)"
> 	@echo
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> 	@echo " retag                   Retag sources as \"$(TAG)\""
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