Re: checkout and update handle state Dead different

[Larry Jones]

"LENTES,JOERN (HP-Germany,ex1)" writes:
> 
> I am on the migrating an RCS Repository to CVS.
> DeadEnd files have the state 'Dead' (notice the first capital letter)
> 
> When I do a 'cvs checkout' these files a not checked out. That's ok!
> 
> When I do a 'cvs update' afterwards the DeadEnd files get checked out
> (reported as got lost!).

I cannot reproduce this problem.  When I do a checkout, files with state
"Dead" *are* checked out (as they should be: CVS uses the state "dead",
not "Dead").  So there must be something other than the state that's
causing the inconsistency (although I can't imagine what it might be).

-Larry Jones

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