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Re: merging the same version again and again and again and again and ...


From: Jim Hyslop
Subject: Re: merging the same version again and again and again and again and ...
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 08:18:36 -0400
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Harald Dunkel wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> How comes that CVS assumes that some versions in 2 branches
> have to be merged again, even though the previous merge and
> checkin happened just a few jiffies before, and no file has
> been modified since then?
> 
> % cvs update -j cde2006_hop1 README
[...]
> % cvs commit -m ""
> cvs commit: Examining .
> % cvs update -j cde2006_hop1 README

CVS assumes nothing. You *told* it to merge the same file again and
again. You may only omit the second -j option on the first merge. The
second and subsequent merges must provide both -j options.

By the way, the better list for this type of question is
info-cvs@nongnu.org.

- --
Jim Hyslop
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