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Specifying what to tag from the working directory
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   The example in the previous section demonstrates one of the most
common ways to choose which revisions to tag.  Namely, running the `cvs
tag' command without arguments causes CVS to select the revisions which
are checked out in the current working directory.  For example, if the
copy of `backend.c' in working directory was checked out from revision
1.4, then CVS will tag revision 1.4.  Note that the tag is applied
immediately to revision 1.4 in the repository; tagging is not like
modifying a file, or other operations in which one first modifies the
working directory and then runs `cvs commit' to transfer that
modification to the repository.

   One potentially surprising aspect of the fact that `cvs tag'
operates on the repository is that you are tagging the checked-in
revisions, which may differ from locally modified files in your working
directory.  If you want to avoid doing this by mistake, specify the
`-c' option to `cvs tag'.  If there are any locally modified files, CVS
will abort with an error before it tags any files:

     $ cvs tag -c rel-0-4
     cvs tag: backend.c is locally modified
     cvs [tag aborted]: correct the above errors first!