RE: loosing branch when updating to a tag on the branch

[Jim.Hyslop]

todd breslow wrote:
> I am using cvs 1.11.5. client on one system and 1.10 on another. My 
> working directory is a branch. "cvs status" confirms that my 
> sticky bit 
> is a branch. I have tagged several times on the branch, but 
> whenever I 
> try to update to the tag the result is that I get a new 
> sticky bit with 
> the tag, but I am now on the trunk and have lost the branch. Why?
This *could* be normal behaviour. Has the file robots.txt actually *changed*
on the branch? If not, then there will be no branch revisions to check out.

Usually when we talk about "creating a branch" what we really mean is
"marking a point where a branch is allowed." The branch is never actually
created until you check something into that branch.

-- 
Jim Hyslop
Senior Software Designer
Leitch Technology International Inc. (http://www.leitch.com)
Columnist, C/C++ Users Journal (http://www.cuj.com/experts)