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Re: Error adding file to existing repository


From: Matt Riechers
Subject: Re: Error adding file to existing repository
Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2002 14:21:43 -0400

address@hidden wrote:
> 
> I am trying to
> "add" the file to the repository and it is giving the
> following error message (in WinCVS):
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> cvs add filename.c (in directory E:\PathToFilename\)
> cvs server: cannot add file on non-branch tag V5-5_2002-07-26

You can't add files to a non-branch tag. Doing this is attempting to
change the past, which defeats the whole purpose of history (file or
otherwise).

> I simply want to add the file to the repository and tag it with
> the same tag.

If you want to maintain a particular version (for bug fixes and such),
use branches instead:
<http://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs_5.html#SEC54>

-Matt



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