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Date:      Wed, 25 Jun 2003 12:20:49 -0700
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/contrib/dev/ath - Imported sources
Message-ID:  <20030625192049.GA69947@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <20030625185216.GH75112@sunbay.com>
References:  <200306250606.h5P66pKB035472@repoman.freebsd.org> <20030625173523.GA31535@dragon.nuxi.com> <159542489.1056537815@melange.errno.com> <20030625174658.GA47724@dragon.nuxi.com> <20030625185216.GH75112@sunbay.com>

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On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 09:52:16PM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 10:46:58AM -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 10:43:35AM -0700, Sam Leffler wrote:
> > > David, ru explained this to me and I promised to fix it as soon as I've got 
> > > bigger problems fixed.
> > 
> > Actually, you can't fix it as it requires directly changing the ,v files.
> > This is something only cvs@ can fix.  A simple email to them asking them
> > to /Atheros/ATHEROS/ for the *,v files is all that is required.
> > 
> Yes you can, by first doing a null import (using the same sources) to
> the ATHEROS branch (the branch will stay at 1.1.1), and then using the
> "cvs tag -B -d Atheros" command; since tre tag name is neither RELENG*
> nor RELEASE*, CVSROOT/tagcheck will allow permit this operation.

That will (1) leave the old tag, which is sloppy.  (2) place the new tag
in the not normal place for finding what the tag is when doing "cvs log".
cvs@ is the best person to change things so it looks like things were
always that way.



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