ERROR: You can not forcibly move tags between branches

Michael Schwendt mschwendt.tmp0701.nospam at arcor.de
Wed Nov 7 12:14:07 UTC 2007


On Tue, 6 Nov 2007 11:12:02 -0600 (CST), Jon Ciesla wrote:

> > 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.

You don't need -F when you update "common", since the next time you
run "make tag" in devel, the new %dist value will make it into a new tag.

But you still cannot move the old tag from devel to F-8, not with -F
either. Hence in the F-8 branch you need to bump to something like
5%{dist}.1




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