[cvsnt] Re: Repost: Directory tag overriding file tag on update

[Bo Berglund]

On Mon, 04 Jul 2005 10:48:27 -0300, Daniel Lapolla
<ldlapolla at yahoo.com> wrote:

>Daniel Lapolla wrote:
>> Daniel Lapolla wrote:
>> 
>>> Sometimes we need to assemble a working copy that consists of a tag 
>>> (baseline) and a set of branches.
>>>
>>> The normal procedure was to check out (or update) with -r <tag_name> 
>>> -j <1st_branch_name>.
>>>
>>> Then we used to switch the modified/added files to the <1st_branch_name>.
>>>
>>> To retrieve the second branch, we used to do an update -j 
>>> <2nd_branch_name>, switch the modified files to <2nd_branch_name> and 
>>> so on for each other branch in the set.
>>>
>>> But now cvsnt seems to override the branches' sticky tags with the 
>>> directory tag <tag_name>, and ends up retrieving the old revision.
>>>
>>> Is this new behavior intentional or its a bug added some time ago?
>>>
>>> We are using server 2.5.01.1910 and client 2.0.51d.
>>>
>>> TIA
>>> Daniel
>> 
>> 
>> Oh... I forgot to tell... I did a little test here. I renamed the "Tag" 
>> file inside CVS' directory and the update worked as expected (in that 
>> directory only).

This was discussed (at length) when it happened and was later also
fixed. You should not use such an old testing release when reporting
problems...


/Bo
(Bo Berglund, developer in Sweden)