With import you make vendor branches. Is this what you want or a normal branch?
Vendor branches is ment for tracking 3rd party sources.
And they do appear in the HEAD unless the main trunk already contains the files
modified.
For normal branches you have to use tag command. See Cederqvist chapter 5
I'm not a CVS guru, but I spent a few minutes looking around on google
groups, and I don't think that you can do it in this way.
Here's a quote I found:
"Import puts things onto a vendor branch, which is special. In
particular, things on vendor branches are also on the trunk."
So maybe you'll