export or checkout of alias modules where the first item in the list is an empty directory

[Richard_Verhoeven]

Hi,

imagine two directories "zero" and "one" in the repository, where "zero" is
empty and "one" contains files having the tag "mytag". If CVSROOT/modules
contains a line "all -a one zero" and you try "cvs export -r mytag all",
the corresponding files from "one" are exported, as expected. If instead
CVSROOT/modules contains "all -a zero one", i.e. the empty directory as the
first item, then the same export statement yields "cvs [export aborted]: no
such tag mytag". The same happens with "cvs checkout".

Observed in 1.11.17 when accessing the server via pserver.

I'm not sure whether this is a bug or a weird consequence of the documented
rules.

Regards

Richard Verhoeven

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