Cvs manual sticky tags

The tag specification is sticky when you use this option with checkout or update to make your own copy of a file: CVS remembers the tag and continues to use it on future update commands, until you specify otherwise (for more information on sticky tags/dates, see section Sticky tags). The tag can be either a symbolic or numeric tag.  · The sticky tag is stored in the CVS/Entries file in the last field. If you look at CVS/Entries with a text editor and search for your filename, you will find this: /myfile//Thu Nov 6 //T The T at the end represents the sticky tag. You can simply remove it, leaving the line:Reviews: 1. $ cvs commit www.doorway.ru cvs commit: Up-to-date check failed for `www.doorway.ru' cvs [commit aborted]: correct above errors first! Here, you've made changes to the www.doorway.ru, but someone else has already committed a new version to the repository (eg - the repository version has a higher number than your local copy).

CVS History view This view provides a list of all the revisions of a resource in the repository as well as all the revisions of a resource in the local history. From this view you can compare revisions, load a revision, revert the corresponding workspace file to a revision, tag with an existing tag, show annotations and open an editor on a. A sticky state applies to all commands run on the file. A file with a sticky date, revision, or nonbranch tag will not be updated to a more recent copy; nor can such files be committed. A file with a sticky branch is always committed to or updated from the branch in question. Sticky states on a file can be viewed with cvs status. That worked fine until, for the second time, I made all the necessary changes and tried to check the file in. I then got the message: cvs server: sticky tag `' for file `Controls/www.doorway.ru' is not a branch cvs [server aborted]: correct above errors first! Error, CVS operation failed I am kind of lost on what to do.

$ cvs co -d mymodule -r BRANCH-VERSION mymodule. The BRANCH-VERSION branch of the module is checked out in the mymodule directory on your system. To determine which branches and tags exist for a file, use the command: $ cvs status-v. To move a tag, specify the -F option to either cvs tag or cvs rtag. For example, the task just mentioned might be accomplished as: cvs tag -r -F stable backend.c By default CVS doesn't allow moving and deleting branch tags, as this should not be done without understanding the issues that this raises. The tag specification is sticky when you use this option with checkout or update to make your own copy of a file: CVS remembers the tag and continues to use it on future update commands, until you specify otherwise (for more information on sticky tags/dates, see section Sticky tags). The tag can be either a symbolic or numeric tag.