Merging branches

[Cyrus Sukhia]

Hi all,

I've been kicking this around for a bit now and just don't
understand what the server is trying to tell me.  Perhaps someone
could shed some light on the subject ...

I run this command:

cvs update -j emailTrans WorkingApplyFormHandlerJCFR.java

Where emailTrans is the name of a branch that was created as the
result of an import command.  The file in question currently
resides on a branch called core_branch and does not exist on the
trunk (it was added directly to the branch).  I see this message:

cvs server: file WorkingApplyFormHandlerJCFR.java exists, but has
been added in revision emailTrans

All I can think is "So what?"  It didn't do the merge but it
hasn't told me why not.  In this particular case I would have
expected a conflict but there isn't one.  Since then I have added
this file to the trunk but nothing changes.  If this was the only
file I'd simply apply the changes myself on the desired branch
but there are a fair amount of files like this that make this a
Herculean task to do by hand.

Any ideas why I'm told this?  Any ideas what I can do?  Anything
would help.

Cheers

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