changing vendor, release tags

[Henricus J. Holtman]

When I first entered my projects into cvs, I used import. My
interpretation of the instructions that came with info, you were supposed
to cd to the computer:

$ cvs import -m "comment here" cvsdir vendor-tag release-tag

Where it doesn't really matter what vendor-tag and release-tag are. Thusly
I used varied words for vendor-tag and release-tag. Now I wish to
retroactively amend those project entries, and make it look like I had a
unified vendor-tag, and a unified release tag to start with. How would I
do this? I can see in the various ,v files a line starting with symbols
that lists the vendor-tag and release-tag info I used for that particular
file. Can I just alter these with sed to my new ones, or will this break
something?

[Larry Jones]

Post by Henricus J. Holtman
Now I wish to
retroactively amend those project entries, and make it look like I had a
unified vendor-tag, and a unified release tag to start with.

Why? What difference does it make?

Post by Henricus J. Holtman
How would I
do this? I can see in the various ,v files a line starting with symbols
that lists the vendor-tag and release-tag info I used for that particular
file. Can I just alter these with sed to my new ones, or will this break
something?

You *could* do that, but it's really not a good idea to mess with the
contents of the RCS files directly unless you really have to. In this
case, you can use cvs admin -n to create new tags that are aliases of
the existing tags and then delete the old tags (either with cvs tag or
cvs admin -n).