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Bug 88459 - No way to create CVS tag based on a tag
Summary: No way to create CVS tag based on a tag
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: versioncontrol
Classification: Unclassified
Component: CVS (show other bugs)
Version: 5.x
Hardware: All All
: P2 blocker (vote)
Assignee: issues@versioncontrol
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Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2006-11-01 20:36 UTC by mclaassen
Modified: 2007-07-25 14:51 UTC (History)
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Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT
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Description mclaassen 2006-11-01 20:36:04 UTC
Situation:
Let's say I have two major releases of my project.  Each major release is its
own branch.  The minor releases have their locations tagged in CVS, but are on
the major release branch.

2.0
  2.0_1
  2.0_2
 2.1
  2.1_1
  2.1_2

A bug is found in 2.0_1 that is super critical, and I need to release a 2.0_1a
immediately.  In all version of netbeans prior to 5.X, I could create a tag at
the location of a different tag.  So, using the above example, I could create a
branch tag at the 2.0_1 location at any time.

Now, this is impossible.  Some other tool (like WinCVS or Netbeans 4.X) must be
used.

I like the new streamlined CVS interface, so long as it does not take away
features that, while not being used often, are necessary.  One of the reason I
chose Netbeans all those years ago was for the awesome CVS integration and it
continues frustrates me that these advanced options are completely gone now.
Comment 1 Maros Sandor 2006-11-02 13:28:46 UTC
Tentativelly targetting for 6.0.
Comment 2 mclaassen 2007-01-04 14:19:22 UTC
Upon retesting it now with 5.5, I see that the issue is a bit more complicated.
 Here are some symptoms:
- XML (non-ANT) files seem to show correctly, and change when the font settings
change
- Once the first ANT file is opened, the settings are fixed at those values and
changes to the font settings are not applied
- It seems the font in the diff tabs does change, but the line spacing is off so
the lines do not match up with the line numbers.
Comment 3 mclaassen 2007-01-04 14:31:52 UTC
Sorry for those last comments, I clicked on the wrong link and those are for a
different bug: 80085.  If the powers that be can remove this and the preceding
comment, please do so.
Comment 4 novakm 2007-07-25 14:17:21 UTC
Reassigning to CVS for evaluation.
Comment 5 Maros Sandor 2007-07-25 14:28:29 UTC
Being assigned to a wrong component, seems the issue has gone off target.
Comment 6 mclaassen 2007-07-25 14:42:02 UTC
I am disappointed to see this get put off again.  Although I didn't use it every day, it was something that I did use in
versions prior to 5.0 (when it was removed).  When this needs to be done, there is just no way to do it in Netbeans now
and a separate tool is needed (like Netbeans 4.1 or WinCVS).  Is this not a priority since subversion is becoming so
popular?

Also, since Netbeans used to support this, and does not anymore, this seems more like a defect than an enhancement request.
Comment 7 Maros Sandor 2007-07-25 14:51:33 UTC
This is not about priorities, it would most probably have made it into 6.0 but since it was assigned to 'ide' instead of
'cvs' component nobody from cvs team saw it in the 'todo' list.