cvs merge error

[David Munt]

hello,

 

i have a problem that has been causing me a lot of grief as i cannot figure out what is going on.

 

i have successfully merged a branch into the trunk in the past but suddenly i am getting an error using the following command in the directory containing a working copy of the trunk (i.e. "source").

 

cvs update -d -P -j branch-last-merged-tag -j branch-tag source

cvs [update aborted]: only two -j options can be specified

 

where "branch-last-merged-tag" is a normal tag added to "source" when that last merge was completed and "branch-tag" is the branch tag of the branch.

 

the command is executed from within a script file so i'm confident that it is the same command used each time and cannot think of any changes to the repository that would impact on the merge.

 

can you offer any suggestions?

 

regards,

david munt

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