CVS/Tag files in intermediate directories are being re-tagged while checkout

[Jerry Lu]

I am seeing a problem or odd behavior introduced in CVS 1.11.3 (1.11.4
for NT) or maybe earlier release.

It seems that 'checkout' command with -r my-tag option will update all intermediate CVS/Tag files with 'Tmy-tag'. For example, I have a directory root-of-tree/a/b/, they all have CVS/Tag 'Nmy-tag1', then I run 'cvs checkout -r  my-tag2 a/b/c' in root-of-tree directory, all intermediate CVS/Tag files (a/CVS/Tag and a/b/CVS/Tag) are replaced by 'Tmy-tag2'.

I wouldn't expect any changes to CVS/Tag files in the intermediate directories while checkout. But what I see is that all the intermediate directories are being re-tagged, which is very bad.

Thanks
Jerry