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Hi, By mistake I created two branches on a module, which are (accidentically) discriminated by upper case and lower case of the same string (branchname and BRANCHNAME), but "both" branches should be handled as one branch. Therefore I have to join them again. Checking out / Updating with sticky tag "branchname" recovers the branch "branchname" and sticky tag "BRANCHNAME" recovers branch "BRANCHNAME" as expected - upper and lower case is taken into account. Now I want to join the branches by renaming the branches with the cvs admin command: - Checking out branch "BRANCHNAME" to "directory" - Applying "cvs admin -nbranchname:BRANCHNAME directory" should rename the branch "BRANCHNAME" to "branchname", but does not work - because upper/lower case is not taken into account with the "cvs admin -n" command Workaround: - Checking out branch "BRANCHNAME" to "directory" - Rename the branch to temporary branchname "cvs admin -ntemp_branchname:BRANCHNAME directory" - Deleting uppercase branch "BRANCHNAME" (which is empty, cause the former branch "BRANCHNAME" has been renamed to "temp_branchname") using "cvs admin -nBRANCHNAME directory" - Rename the temporary branch to lowercase name "cvs admin -nbranchname:temp_branchname directory" - Deleting temporary branchname "cvs admin -ntemp_branchname directory" - The branch is renamed from "BRANCHNAME" The inconsistency in handling upper/lower case branchnames in cvs checkout/update on the one hand and cvs admin on the other hand is a bug. Johannes