Re: Use of Update Options, Reset any sticky tags/date/kopts - erased file!

"collette.parr" <[email protected]> Mon, 29 Aug 2011 18:45:35 -0000
Newsgroups gmane.comp.version-control.cvs.gui.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I should mention that we are using WinCVS 2.0.0.2 (Build 2).
Collette

--- In [email protected], "collette.parr" <collette.parr@...> wrote:
>
> In trying to move a file on a branch back to the mainline of code, we went to Modify, Update Options, and selected the Sticky options:  Reset any sticky tags/date/kopts.  When we refreshed the screen in WinCVS, the file was not listed.
> We searched for the local copy on the software engineer's hard drive, and it was not there.  It also was not in SourceForge (our code repository tool), nor could I see it on the backend in the file structure in /cvsroot on the server.
> It appears that this option erased the file from existence!
> Is this a known error?  What did we do wrong?
> Any help would be greatly appreciated as this represents quite a bit of lost work.
> Thanks,
> Collette
>




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