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

[Pierre Asselin]

In <mailman.230.1042485944.21513.bug-cvs@gnu.org> "Jerry Lu" 
<Jerry.Lu@xilinx.com> writes:

>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'.

You should probably run "cvs update" instead of a second "checkout".
Having said this, my (old) cvs manpage says:

              Running  `cvs  checkout'  on  a  directory that was
              already built by a prior checkout is  also  permit-
              ted,  and  has the same effect as specifying the -d
              option to the update command described below.

so I'd say you found a bug.