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

Am 29.08.2011 um 20:28 schrieb collette.parr:

> 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.

Usually, when cvs removes a file that is no longer available in the repository, it renames it to start with ".#" and appends the revision to the end (e.g. ".#foo.1.2.3"), so you may need to look for an invisible file named like this (in the source directory that was reverted to the main branch).

BTW: this is not an "error", this is the expected behavior and it's also logged to the console output when this happens.

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