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Subject: Re: What's the current 5.4 tag? 
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Clint Olsen writes:
> I tried RELENG_5_4 and cvsup wiped out my entire source repository since
> ths tag doesn't exist.  This seems like a silly thing to do - blasting the
> entire archive if a tag doesn't exist.  Why not error out instead?

CVS BugFeature. Sorry. I suggest complaining to the CVS developers.

OTOH, "Don't do that then", because you asked CVS to "ensure that all 
source files in my checked out tree had the 5.4 tag", and it did so.

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