Andrew Goktepe wrote:
Recently, a CVS update of one of our modules brought in a file that
has been removed for more than a year, and now I am unable to get rid
of it. When I try to commit the removal of the file, I get a "failed
to remove tag" error message:
$ cvs status PriceGuideListContainer.java
=========================================================
File: no file PriceGuideListContainer.java Status: Locally Removed
Working revision: -1.15
Repository revision: 1.15
/cvs/CVS_REPOSIT/<blah>/PriceGuideListContainer.java,v
Sticky Tag: HEAD (revision: 1.15)
This sticky tag indicates that at some point you issued the command 'cvs
update -rHEAD'. This is not the way to clear sticky tags - use 'cvs
update -A' instead.
Sticky Date: (none)
Sticky Options: (none)
$ cvs commit -m "" PriceGuideListContainer.java
cvs commit: failed to remove tag `HEAD' from `PriceGuideListContainer.java'
$
We were running CVS 1.11 until I ran into this problem. I've since
updated the server and client to 1.11.20, but I still cannot commit
this file to get rid of it.
Does this look like corruption?
Depends - what happens with a fresh checkout, i.e.:
mkdir tmp
cd tmp
cvs -dwhatever co module
If the file does not get checked out, then it's not likely corruption.
Even if it does get checked out, that doesn't mean the file is corrupted.
Since your status command shows a sticky tag of HEAD, try issuing the
command 'cvs update -A'. You may have to manually edit the CVS/Entries
file to remove the line referring to PriceGuideListContainer.java, and
delete the local file.
If these steps don't resolve the issue, then show us the output of 'cvs
rlog -h -rHEAD /module/path/PriceGuideListContainer.java'
--
Jim
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