Duplicating a tag in CVS

[Rajani Deshpande]

Say I have a tag in CVS as JAN_2008_RELEASE.

The development is going on and we have files checked in.

We want to have another tag for the same JAN_2008_RELEASE so that we can do a minor release. and yet have the original JAN_2008_RELEASE code available.

rtag allows me to move a file to the JAN_2008_RELEASE but thats not what I want to do.
If I try to create a tag now, its using the current versions of the files and not the JAN Release files.

I want to duplicate the tag as say JUN_2008_RELEASE. which has the same files as the JAN release and move only the fixed files (not all modified files) to the JUN_2008_RELEASE.

Can we do it?

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

Rajani,
It sounds like you want to create a branch from the original, change some files in the branch and re-version.

[Rajani Deshpande]

No , I dont want to reversion.

I have a old label JAN_RELEASE.. Now its June and many files have changed.

I wanted to duplicate a the old label as JUNE_RELEASE and add only a few files to it.

At the end I want to keep the JAN_RELEASE, JUNE_RELASE tags.(JUNE_RELEASE being exact copy of JAN_RELEASE except for a few files.) If I Create a tag now,Its using all the checked in files which I dont want to.

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

Rajani,
Reversioning doesn't have to be from the head.

If I'm understanding, you want two sets of tags at the end. Most files would be the same except for the few changed ones.

What I describe is a reversioning. The key is that you are versioning from your checked out files (branch) and not what is in the HEAD.

[Ilja Preuss]

Check out a working copy of JAN_RELEASE, and use "tag" instead of "rtag".