Re: sticky non-branch tags are sometines treated as branches in

[Larry Jones]

Alvaro Martinez Echevarria writes:
> 
> In this case cvs has to create parent and then
> parent/anotherparent before checking out the subdirectory we are
> really interested in. Not only parent and parent/anotherparent
> have a CVS/Tag file (IMO they shouldn't at all), but their tag is
> marked as branch (which, again, is wrong).

There is no right answer in this case.  CVS simply does not have
sufficient information to tag parent directories "correctly", whatever
that means.  (Note that CVS works on a directory at a time; there is no
mechanism for files contained in a subdirectory to affect the processing
of the parent directory.)  If parent directories weren't tagged at all,
then new files would be added to the tip of the trunk, which might be
better in your situation, but would undoubtedly be much worse in other,
equally common situations.

-Larry Jones

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