If I recall correctly, I believe that's a file that has been added on  
a branch but does not exist on HEAD.


On Aug 24, 2008, at 7:05 AM, Tom Browder wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 4:52 AM, Christopher Sean Morrison
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> There's lots of things that can cause the active and attic files  
>> problem,
>> both valid and invalid iirc.  Aside from folks manually messing  
>> with files
>> in the cvsroot (which is probably the *most* common cause), I  
>> believe some
>> versions would track files that were deleted on a branch and  
>> active on head
>> or vice-versa in that manner.  Having entire subtrees of dead  
>> files in the
>> attic, though, was specifically really old versions of CVS (like  
>> on old SGI
>> server systems).  If the repository side of cvs used to be and older
>
> The specific weird thing I've seen is an active file, on a branch,
> that, when I run 'cvs status', shows its RCS file as in the Attic!
>
> Have you seen that?
>
> -Tom
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