RE: How to add/commit a directory after the files therein are already added/commited

[Ming Kin Lai]

I asked my sys admin to retrieve a backup copy of my doc directory and I do 
a cvs status under both my current working directory and the backup 
directory for the "Changelog" file.

% cvs status -v ~/VERSION3/doc/ChangeLog
=========================================================
File: ChangeLog         Status: Locally Modified

  Working revision:    1.1.2.2 Sat Jan 14 05:05:53 2006
  Repository revision: 1.1.2.2 
/home/messengr/cvs/messengers/doc/Attic/ChangeLog,v
  Sticky Tag:          v3_0_5 (revision: 1.1.2.2)
  Sticky Date:         (none)
  Sticky Options:      (none)

  Existing Tags:
       v3_0_5                          (revision: 1.1.2.2)
       v3_0_4                          (revision: 1.1.2.1)
       VERSION3                      (branch: 1.1.2)

% cvs status -v ~/RESTORED/doc/ChangeLog
=========================================================
File: ChangeLog         Status: Locally Modified

  Working revision:    1.1.2.2 Sat Jan 14 01:41:28 2006
  Repository revision: 1.1.2.2 
/home/messengr/cvs/messengers/doc/Attic/ChangeLog,v
  Sticky Tag:          VERSION3 (branch: 1.1.2)
  Sticky Date:         (none)
  Sticky Options:      (none)

  Existing Tags:
       v3_0_5                          (revision: 1.1.2.2)
       v3_0_4                          (revision: 1.1.2.1)
       VERSION3                      (branch: 1.1.2)

As you can see, both are the same except one has VERSION3 (a branch tag) as 
its sticky tag and one has v3_0_5, a non-branch tag ?, as its sticky tag.  
What could I have done between 1:41 and 5:05 on Jan 14 to cause the change 
of the sticky tag?  And apparently when I tagged the file with v3_0_4, the 
sticky tag was not changed to v3_0_4; it remained at VERSION3.

By the way, the CVS/Tag file in the current working directory has Nv3_0_5 
whereas the one in the RESTORED (the backup) directory has TVERSION3.

Really really appreciated your help.

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