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Specifying what to tag by date or revision
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   The `cvs rtag' command tags the repository as of a certain date or
time (or can be used to tag the latest revision).  `rtag' works
directly on the repository contents (it requires no prior checkout and
does not look for a working directory).

   The following options specify which date or revision to tag.  See
Note: Common options, for a complete description of them.

`-D DATE'
     Tag the most recent revision no later than DATE.

`-f'
     Only useful with the `-D DATE' or `-r TAG' flags.  If no matching
     revision is found, use the most recent revision (instead of
     ignoring the file).

`-r TAG'
     Only tag those files that contain existing tag TAG.

   The `cvs tag' command also allows one to specify files by revision
or date, using the same `-r', `-D', and `-f' options.  However, this
feature is probably not what you want.  The reason is that `cvs tag'
chooses which files to tag based on the files that exist in the working
directory, rather than the files which existed as of the given tag/date.
Therefore, you are generally better off using `cvs rtag'.  The
exceptions might be cases like:

     cvs tag -r 1.4 backend.c