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Gerhard Fiedler wrote: > Hello, > > I have a file that has been removed on a branch, but when I merge that > branch into HEAD, the file on HEAD doesn't get removed. Instead, I get a > message that says "cvs server: file Base.hpp has been modified, but has > been removed in revision bGeDev". (See the update command below.) > > The file is not modified on HEAD (see stat below). The only modifications > are a few revisions on the branch after the last merge before the file got > removed on the branch. But the last revision on the branch is dead (see log > below). Yet, after the merge, the file in HEAD is untouched. > > Can anybody explain why it doesn't merge the remove from the branch to > HEAD? > The branch was branched from 1.4, and there's a 1.5 on HEAD, which means that to delete on the merge is a conflict - changes will be lost. cvsnt won't do anything that could potentially lose edits, so it warns you so you can do any changes needed manually. Tony