[cvsnt] Re: cvs server: warning: new-born newfile.txt has disappeared

[Tony Hoyle]

Daniel Lapolla wrote:
> I agree, but could you imagine the mess in the rcs files when you create 
> 10-20 repository/tree-wide branches per day? It would render any 
> graphing tool useless. And also, it would take a little time to tag 
> 15.000+ files for each change request.

That's only around 7000 tags a year.. not really that much.  Graphing 
tools should be able to filter out empty branches anyway.

Or use bugids and forget about the tags.

> I added a new file directly into a branch, and now I want to retrieve 
> it. It does not exist in the trunk, but it is there in the branch. When 
> I try to update it to the branch, it disappears.

I do this all the time (especially with the 2.6.x merging process I'm 
doing at the moment) and have no problems.

Can you describe exactly what you're doing?

Tony