tag

Synopsis: tag [OPTIONS] TAG [FILES]

• Alternate names – ta, freeze
• Requires – Working copy, repository
• Changes – Repository

Attaches a name to a particular revision or collection of revisions for a project. Often called "taking a snapshot" of the project. This command is also used to create branches in CVS. (See the -b option – see also rtag.)

Options:

• -b – Creates a branch named TAG.
• -c – Checks that the working copy has no uncommitted changes. If it does, the command exits with a warning, and no tag is made.
• -D DATE – Tags the latest revisions no later than DATE.
• -d – Deletes the tag. No record is made of this change; the tag simply disappears. CVS does not keep a change history for tags.
• -F – Forces reassignment of the tag name, if it happens to exist already for some other revision in the file.
• -f – Forces to head revision if a given tag or date is not found. (See -r and -D.)
• -l – Local. Runs in the current directory only.
• -R – Recursive. Descends into subdirectories (the default). The -R option exists only to counteract a -l in .cvsrc.
• -r REV – Tags revision REV (which may itself be a tag name).