Hi, Yes this is a big +1 for me, since I have a 1 of these. Thanks. Gordon. Derek Wright wrote:
this is about the infamous "sticky tag is not a branch" error described here: http://drupal.org/node/57516
our contrib repository is littered with "DRUPAL-4-7" tags that should really be branches. back in the dark ages before the new release system, it didn't matter that much, and our CVS repository access control scripts didn't care. now it matters a great deal, and the scripts enforce that all new branches and tags fit our naming convention and do what they should (i.e. "DRUPAL-5" must be a branch, and "DRUPAL-5--1-0" must be a tag)...
however, there's still a bunch of older tags that should be converted. about a month ago, there were 75 DRUPAL-4-7 tags that should be branches. a few of them already have support issues waiting. it's a pain in the ass for the CVS admins (me), and it's a pain in the ass for the end developers (some of you).
in http://drupal.org/node/103429 i propose to just write a script to do this conversion all at once, so that developers don't have to stumble into this problem on their own, and i don't have to do any more manual effort to help correct things on a case-by-case basis.
does anyone object to this proposal? if so, please follow-up here and say so: http://drupal.org/project/comments/add/103429
otherwise, i might try and get to this sometime early next week, since the manual support load this problem is generating is driving me nuts, and slowing me down from doing Real Work(tm).
cheers, -derek
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