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On Sat, 14 May 2005 01:20:30 +0100, Tony Hoyle <tmh at nodomain.org> wrote: >Bo Berglund wrote: > >> So the real culprit here is that sticky tagging on revisions are no >> longer possible. That is not what I tested back in February, at that >> time label tags also were reset on updates, but Tony fixed that and I >> did not test with pure revision sticky tags... > >It's possible that's not worked recently then... I can't recall using a >revision sticky tag in a very long time (not a lot of use for them in >general). > >It's unrelated to anything that's changed since the last build, since I >haven't changed anything related to sticky tags. > I made a few tests more: With a server running 2.0.41a and the client as 2.5.01.1966 the sticky revision still is not sticky, only sticky symbolic tags are sticky. Then I changed the client to 2.0.51d and now the sticky revision stays sticky too. So this seems to be related to the *client side* cvs not refreshing the metadata properly. But I have stared at the Entries file in both situations and I see no difference (except the timestamp), yet in one case cvs status reports Need-Patch, and in the other Up-To-Date. /Bo (Bo Berglund, developer in Sweden)