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On Tue, 29 Jun 2004 01:55:02 -0700 (PDT), Shihab K B <shihab_kb at yahoo.com> wrote: >I am suffering from a problem in CVS while trying to >add a new file toa branch. > >Situation : > > Trying to add a new file to old branch. branch is >Version_2_2 > 1. Took the branched version from cvs. > 2. Tried to add a new file then its giging the error > > > cvs server: cannot add file on non-branch tag > But I can able to add new file to som eother folders >of same branch. > I expect there are some files in the directory where Version_2_2 is *not* a branch tag. Directories themselves don't have tag information (other than the default tag in the CVS/Tag file). In the case where you try to add a file to a directory and the state of the tag is ambiguous it plays it safe (correctly, IMO). Tony