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

[Mark D. Baushke]

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Richard_Verhoeven@WestLB.de writes:

> 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.

Hmmm... this may be a problem with $CVSROOT/CVSROOT/val-tags not having
a 'mytag y' line in it.

I believe this problem is still present in cvs 1.11.18.1 and cvs
1.12.10.1 (ie, the most recent CVS top-of-tree versions of both stable
and feature releases).

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

It is a bug.

The workaround is to do something like:

    cvs co -r mytag one
    cvs release -d one
    cvs export -r mytag all

which is painful, but the best you can probably do for now.

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