cvs add & join inconsistency

With reference to:

http://www.google.com.au/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=0UB5a.8169%24VH5.7121%40news-server.bigpond.net.au

is this (patch against cvs1-11-5) what is required to get a conflict?

Note that existing comments say:

 /* The file currently exists in the working directory, so we
           have a conflict which we can not resolve.  Note that this
           is true even if the file is marked for addition or removal.  */

ie they consider it to be a conflict.  But did they expect it to be
marked as a conflict somewhere else?  I didn't see too many
direct calls to this Register function to set a conflict.  It looks
like conflicts are signified by updating the Entries file.  I wonder
how CVS knows whether conflicts have been resolved.  Is it
via updated timestamp or the absence of "<<<<<<" markup?

BFN.  Paul.


Index: update.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/ccvs/src/update.c,v
retrieving revision 1.202
diff -c -r1.202 update.c
*** update.c 28 Dec 2002 17:56:59 -0000 1.202
--- update.c 25 May 2003 02:03:37 -0000
***************
*** 2425,2430 ****
--- 2425,2433 ----
       "file %s exists, but has been added in revision %s",
       finfo->fullname, jrev2);

+  Register (finfo->entries, finfo->file, mrev, vers->ts_rcs,
+     vers->options, vers->tag, vers->date, vers->ts_conflict);
+
   return;
      }