On 10/5/05, Andrew Goktepe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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) > 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? I also tried running the check_cvs > script from the 1.11.20 installation, but it fails with this message: >
You can try to run this in your current sandbox: cvs up -A MODULE/PATH/PriceGuideListContainer.java cvs ci MODULE/PATH/PriceGuideListContainer.java The '-A' clears the sticky tag HEAD. You can't commit to a non-branch revision (file with sticky tag; HEAD or otherwise). Does that help? --Russ > $ check_cvs > Unable to read checkoutlist file: No such file or directory > $ > > Andrew Goktepe > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > _______________________________________________ > Info-cvs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs > _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
