Weird release message

[lpeterson]

I'm in the process of switching my team's source control from SourceSafe to CVS (using CVSNT).  Everything has gone great, but there's been one little issue that's bugged me.  When I invoke "cvs release -d somedir" on a directory where I know I all my changes have been committed, I get the message "You have [1] altered files in this repository."  If I abort the release, switch to somedir, and run "cvs -q -n update", CVS doesn't find any altered files.  After some more experimentation, I found that "cvs release -d" would always report one altered file, no matter how many files had actually been altered.

Have I missed something somewhere?  On my Solaris server, I'm using a different cvs command-line client (1-11-1p1), and it seems to report the correct number of altered files.  This is a small issue, everything else seems to work fine.  But it's bugging me, and possibly I've missed something important.

Lance Peterson
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