On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 09:45, Larry Jones wrote: > > [And why is 'HEAD' a sticky tag in the first place?] > > Because you did "cvs update -r HEAD". Any time you update to a specific > revision, that revision becomes "sticky" in your working directory. > It's not that the tag itself is sticky, rather that your working file is > stuck at that revision.
Ah. So the cvsbook at cvsbook.red-bean.com is wrong (or at least misleading). It said the following: If you want to return to the trunk, just run this cvs update -r HEAD or this cvs update -A from the top directory. So I thought the two were synonymous (i.e. I thought -r would only give a sticky tag if it was used to update to an old version or tag). Should I try to find the author's email address and send him a note? > "update -A" doesn't fix it because there's no corresponding file in the > repository to update with. Unfortunately, I don't know of any good way > to fix it. Probably the simplest thing to do is to temporarily rename > the file, "cvs remove" it, rename it back again and "cvs add" it (now > that your working directory no longer has a sticky tag, the file won't > get one either). Wahoo! That worked. > -Larry Jones Thanks for the fast response! The free software world never ceases to amaze me... Elijah -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Elijah Newren Internet: http://www.math.utah.edu/~newren [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tired of pop-up webpages when surfing the internet? Look at http://www.math.utah.edu/~newren/noPopUps.html for how to get rid of them without spending a penny. ----------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs