Re: Need Answer to an Error during Add Command

[Larry Jones]

Swartz, Jera L writes:
> 
> I am getting an error while trying to add a new binary file to the CVS
> repository. The directory in which it resides has already been imported into
> CVS.

I hope you mean the directory in which it resides has already been
checked out from CVS.  add only works in a working directory, which is a
directory checked out from CVS.  Importing a directory does not make it
a working directory.

> The error I am getting is:
> 
> cvs server: cannot add file on non-branch tag 1.2

That means that your directory is locked at a specific revision.  You
need to do ``cvs update -A'' to get rid of the sticky tag if you're
intending to add the file to the trunk or ``cvs update -r <branch tag>''
if you intend to add it to a branch.

-Larry Jones

It's no fun to play games with a poor sport. -- Calvin