Which version of CVS?  I just tried this using 1.10.8 and it
worked fine.

On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 01:58:39PM -0400, Kevin C. Castner wrote:
> I have files that were created on a branch
> 
> (Create the file)
> cvs co -r branch_name doc
> cd doc
> touch index.htm
> cvs add index.htm
> cvs commit index.htm
> 
> Now I try to merge the file back to the main trunk.
> 
> cd ..
> rm -rf doc
> cvs co doc
> cd doc
> cvs update -j branch_name
> cvs commit index.htm
> 
> 
> CVS then gives me the following error:
> 
> cvs server: cannot add file `index.htm' when RCS file 
>`/export/home/cvs/netops/doc/index.htm,v' already exists
> cvs [server aborted]: correct above errors first!
> 
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