Re: problem creating tag on branch where HEAD has deleted directory

[Christopher W. Farnham]

The directory on the branch contains source files needed by the branch but not HEAD.  I'm trying to tag them so I can "save state" before making
future iterations on the branch.  The branch and HEAD of this particular project vary greatly.  I have no plans to merge this branch back into HEAD but need to maintain it for legacy installations of this application.

Christopher Farnham
Senior Consultant at Wrycan, Inc.

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http://www.wrycan.com

address@hidden wrote:

Remove the dir from your branch?

 

-chris

-----Original Message-----
From: address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden] On Behalf Of Christopher W. Farnham
Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2004 12:31 PM
To: address@hidden
Subject: problem creating tag on branch where HEAD has deleted directory

I'm in a jam while trying to use the 'cvs tag' command on a branch which contains a directory now deleted in the HEAD branch.

My output looks like this:
address@hidden contentcontroller]$ cvs tag -Ff R3-1
cvs tag: failed to create lock directory for `/usr/local/cvs/wrycanCode/wrycan/contentcontroller/src/java/com/wrycan/contentcontroller/cvsclient' (/usr/local/cvs/wrycanCode/wrycan/contentcontroller/src/java/com/wrycan/contentcontroller/cvsclient/#cvs.lock): No such file or directory
cvs tag: failed to obtain dir lock in repository `/usr/local/cvs/wrycanCode/wrycan/contentcontroller/src/java/com/wrycan/contentcontroller/cvsclient'
cvs [tag aborted]: read lock failed - giving up

Any ideas how I can get around this?  The 'cvsclient' directory is removed from HEAD but still exists in my branch. 

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Christopher Farnham
Senior Consultant at Wrycan, Inc.

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http://www.wrycan.com