[cvsnt] Sticky tags rendering sandbox unusable

[Oliver Giesen]

I just performed some tests with a local CVSNT 2.5.01.1927 server and
it seems that there is something seriously broken (though it's possibly
not that easy, otherwise I'd have expected this to be reported
already). What I did was quite simple:

Update a directory to a sticky tag, such as MyTestBranch or 1.1 . In
both cases, from that point on, I could neither log nor update nor
status anything in that folder (actually the only thing that still
appears to work is cvs ver). All I ever get is either:

cvs [server aborted]: tag 'MyTestBranch
' has non-visible graphic characters

or:

cvs [server aborted]: tag '1.1' must start with a letter

The only way out is deleting/releasing the directory and checking it
out anew (BTW: cvs release -d also produced the above error, but it did
remove the directory nevertheless).


This does not happen when I perform the update -r at the individual
file level rather than the directory level so it seems it has something
to do with the ./CVS/Tag file but I couldn't find anything out of the
ordinary in there.

Any ideas?

Cheers,

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