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Hello, I have a problem with partial branching. The structure is like this: dir1 subdir1 (branched) subdir2 (not branched) file1 (not branched) When I do an update like this on dir1: cvs update -P -f -r branch I basically get what I want -- that is, I get the files I want. Which is subdir1 (and everything else that's on the branch) from the branch, and the rest (everything that's not on the branch) from HEAD. But the files that came from HEAD have a sticky tag of "branch". This is odd, because these files of course don't exist on "branch". I can't edit and commit them as they are -- I need to get rid of the sticky tag first, which kind of makes the -f (force HEAD) option almost useless. Is this how it is supposed to be, or is this a problem with my rather outdated server version? Client: Concurrent Versions System (CVSNT) 2.5.01 (Travis) Build 1976 Server: Concurrent Versions System (CVSNT) 2.0.34 If it is by design, what do you people do when you use this option -f? How is it supposed to be used? Thanks, Gerhard