Flossie wrote: > Yeah had already seen that... although I understand in concept, I'm > having trouble transferring that to 'real life'.... Maybe > this week I'm > operating in dummy mode ;-) I need more sleep Well, I can't help with the sleep, but I'll try to give a basic explanation of what a sticky tag is.
Basically, a sticky tag lets your local copy "stick to" a particular revision. It's as if you are stuck to, or glued to, a specific revision or branch. Until you clear the stickiness, CVS will always do its operations against the specific revision you have checked out (unless it's a branch tag). Without a sticky tag in place, CVS will always do its operations against the HEAD revision. The term "sticky tag" is actually a little misleading. A more accurate term would be "sticky revision" because you can be stuck on more than just a tag. You can stick to a date, or to a specific revision number as well. When stuck to a particular branch (i.e. the "sticky tag" is a branch tag), it's more of a "floating tag". I don't think that term is used by CVS, but it basically means that the tag floats to the latest revision on the branch you're working on. > I'm also hoping that I can resolve this sort of problem with the GUI > (Tortoise) especially since it's our usual way of accessing CVS and I > may only use the command-line once every few months [...] > Haven't spotted such a NG yet :) Unfortunate. Sorry I can't be any help there. -- Jim Hyslop Senior Software Designer Leitch Technology International Inc. (http://www.leitch.com) Columnist, C/C++ Users Journal (http://www.cuj.com/experts) _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs