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Siegfried Heintze wrote: >So I try CVS UPDATE -r HEAD header.h. > Use "cvs update -A header.h" instead (like you wrote below). >This does a merge. Why does this do a >merge? I thought -j does a merge. > "cvs update" always does a merge if necessary, i.e. if a new revision has been committed since you last updated the file in question. >I resolve the merges and I try to commit >again and it still complains that the header.h file is not a branch! Why? > >So then I CVS LOG header.h and see that 1.5 is the latest. So then CVS >UPDATE -r 1.5 header.h and then try to commit. No luck, same error. Why? > > Because "cvs update -r" tells CVS that you want to get that specific revision and *stay* on that revision. >So then I try CVS UPDATE -A header.h and then CVS COMMIT and I get the >error: "cvs server: file 'header.h' had a conflict and has not been >modified". I don't why it says that. The source code compiles. > > In rare cases, CVS might get confused regarding whether there really is a conflict - if there are no conflict markers in the file (even if the file compiles, there could still be a conflict inside an #ifdef or a comment - search for ">>>"), just e.g. add a space, delete the space, and save the file again. -Torsten