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

[Daniel Lapolla]

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 (for that 
directory).