Question

I have the following repository structure

/
|-- projects/
|    |-- projectA/
|    |    |-- moduleA/
|    |    |-- moduleB/
|    |    |-- moduleC/
|-- other_stuff

I want to create a branch from a particular tag for the projectAdirectory. So this are the commands I’m using and the output I get.

C:\>cvs login
Logging in to :ssh:myuser@myserver:22:/opt/cvs
CVS Password:

C:\>cvs tag -r TagToBranchFrom -b NewBranch projects/projectA 
cvs [tag aborted]: no such directory `projects'

What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

You are using cvs tag which carries out actions on a working copy (ie. checked out project).

If you don’t have the project checked out then you should use cvs rtag which works on the repository and doesn’t require a working copy.