ERROR: You can not forcibly move tags between branches

[Neal Becker]

Jon Ciesla wrote:

> 
>> Jon Ciesla wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>> Jon Ciesla wrote:
>>>>
>>>> [...]
>>>>>
>>>>> Re-tag in f-8 with "TAG_OPTS=-F make tag", should fix it.  Should be
>>>>> OK
>>>>> since youve got the f9 tag in devel already.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Like this?
>>>>
>>>> TAG_OPTS=-F make tag
>>>> cvs tag -F -c uncrustify-0_40-1_fc8
>>>> ERROR: The tag uncrustify-0_40-1_fc8 is already applied on a different
>>>> branch
>>>> ERROR: You can not forcibly move tags between branches
>>>
>>> See message on updating common. . .:)
>>>
>> Are you sure about this?  I think the problem is that the tag was already
>> (mistakenly) applied to devel.  Probably because I did the tag in devel
>> before discovering that I needed to update common.
> 
> That's true.  The old common is what caused the invalid fc8 tag to appear
> in devel, and the tag -F should have fixed it, I've never had that not
> work.
> 
>> AFAICT, the only workaround is just bump to 0_40-2.  That's what I did,
>> now
>> it's building.
> 
> Will you be bumping and rebuilding devel also, to avoid an EVR problem?
> 

I didn't know there would be a problem.  Can I find an description of this
problem somewhere?  Do you mean that the 0_40-2_fc8 would appear to be
newer than the 0_40-1_fc9?