[cvsnt] Strange behaviour of cvs update -C -j

[SDI]

On Mon, 5 Jan 2004 11:04:10 -0700, Glen Starrett <grstarrett at cox.net> 
wrote:

>> When I do cvs update -C -j HEAD <file> the file is made
>> read-only. The -j
>> HEAD can be omitted altogether, but still I wonder why the
>> file is made
>> read-only?
>
> I had a similar problem with the cvs up -j behavior, bringing in new 
> files
> as read-only.  Was this a new file to the branch, or one that existed on 
> the
> branch already?  (I'm assuming that you are on a branch here).

It was an existing file on the main trunk (no branch).