Sticky tag problem

[Dean Gentle]

Hi,

I am trying to commit a package which is of another project. But I want to include the same in my project to avoid dependencies. While committing, its giving error like,

cvs commit: sticky tag `rel-1-1' for file <filename.java> is not a branch


Please suggest best solution. I dont want to update original code.

[Tim Holloway]

CVS and Subversion do not permit a directory to reside in more than one version-control project at a time. The hidden files and directories that the client uses to synchronize with the repository have the owning project's data coded in them, and there's no place to put a second "owner", much less resolve the potential conflicts.

If a resource is shared, it's really better to make an independent project out of that shared resource and have it referenced by the dependent projects.

You can split out a component of a project by doing a CVS export, which will create a local copy of just the files without the CVS control information. These files can then be used as the source for a CVS create operation.

[Peter Johnson]

Looks more like a cvs question to me, moving to the IDE and Version Control forum.

Oh, and welcome to Java Ranch!