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Bug 14306

Summary: [CVS CVSNT] CVS Tags not working
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Anders Sveen <anders>
Component: TeamAssignee: Platform-VCM-Inbox <platform-vcm-inbox>
Status: RESOLVED INVALID QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P5 CC: Witold.Szczeponik
Version: 2.0Keywords: helpwanted
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows XP   
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Description Anders Sveen CLA 2002-04-22 06:12:03 EDT 
I started M5 with a clean workspace and checked out my projects from the 
repository. (CVS NT 1.11.1.3) (Sun JDK 1.4)

I created some changes and committed. When i chose "Tag as Version...", it 
performed all steps and everything seems ok.

When i go to the "CVS Repository Exploring" perspective the version shows up 
under "versions". But all earlier versions created with the previous version 
of eclipse does not show up (The still exist in the repository through 
wincvs). 

I click to expand the project with the version, and click to expand the first 
dir. (MyProject\com\) Then i get an alert-box saying something went wrong 
on "update" and that the server did not provide any details. 

When exploring the status of the project with WinCVS there is no mention of my 
new tag. The new tag has not been entered to the repository. However 
other "version tags" are present there, but they are not visible in 
the "Repository Exploring" perspective inside Eclipse.

It seems to me Eclipse is unable to read or write the tags from the repository.
Comment 1 Michael Valenta CLA 2002-04-22 08:55:38 EDT 
The problem is not that Eclipse can't read versions. The problem is that there 
is a CVSNT bug that causes the connection to be dropped if your are performing 
an update on a tag for a folder that contains folders but no files.

P.S. You can get earlier versions using Configure Tags... which is available 
from the context menu of a repository location in the repository view.
Comment 2 Kevin McGuire CLA 2002-04-22 16:37:17 EDT 
CVSNT not officially supported, and this bug is actually in the cvs client.  
For these reasons no workaround planned for 2.0.
Comment 3 Michael Valenta CLA 2002-08-29 10:40:14 EDT 
Reopening so this bug will appear in the help wanted query
Comment 4 Michael Valenta CLA 2002-09-12 07:05:25 EDT 
*** Bug 23439 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Michael Valenta CLA 2002-09-17 09:10:56 EDT 
With the latest build of CVSNT (1.11.1.3 build 57i) this seems to work