RE: cannot checkout new tag

[Jason Sicotte]

One thing that might be helpful is to use CVS with the -t (trace), flag.
This causes CVS to be really verbose as to what it is doing, and my help you
find out where the holdup is.

Example: cvs -t co -r tag-name external src svrcfg

> -----Original Message-----
> From: address@hidden 
> [mailto:address@hidden On Behalf 
> Of Neil Watson
> Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2005 11:14 AM
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: cannot checkout new tag
> 
> Some developers have noticed a bug that we cannot seem to 
> isolate.  If code is checked in using a new tag, that tag 
> cannot be checked out on the first attempt.  When the first 
> checkout is attempted the cvs client is unresponsive.  This 
> does not matter how long we wait until attempting the first 
> checkout.  The second checkout works as expected.
> 
> example:
> Check out some code without tag.
> - cvs co external src svrcfg
> Check in code with a tag.
> - cvs tag -r tag-name external src svrcfg Check out the tagged code.
> - cvs co -r tag-name external src svrcfg
> 
> Our cvs server is a Redhat 9 installation using cvs-1.11.2-10
> 
> I built a test server using the same software but was not 
> able to reproduce this error.
> 
> Can anyone offer any suggestions on possible causes or ways 
> to debug this?
> 
> --
> Neil Watson
> Network Administrator
> www.voicegenie.com
> 
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