Whatever happened to make force-tag?

Steve Grubb sgrubb at redhat.com
Thu Dec 18 14:29:19 UTC 2008


On Wednesday 17 December 2008 10:29:49 am Farkas Levente wrote:
> Dan Horák wrote:
> > Steve Grubb píše v St 17. 12. 2008 v 09:54 -0500:
> >> I remember that there were lots of discussion about this in September.
> >> We have the ability to do "force-tag" in cvs directly, why have we not
> >> taken the next step and re-enabled the make target?
> >
> > The official way is now "TAG_OPTS=-f make tag", but you can have "make
> > force-tag" too - see
> > http://www.redhat.com/archives/rhl-devel-list/2008-September/msg01689.htm
> >l
>
> it'd be useful to document it somehow...

It would be even more useful if we just decided that since we have an official 
workaround, its OK to restore the force-tag target to use it.

-Steve




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