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Bug 8898

Summary:	[CVS UI] Cannot add file when project loaded from version
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Kevin McGuire <Kevin_McGuire>
Component:	Team	Assignee:	Platform-VCM-Inbox <platform-vcm-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	James_Moody
Version:	2.0	Keywords:	usability
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	All
Whiteboard:

Description Kevin McGuire

2002-01-31 18:30:06 EST

1. Load a project "version" (in this specific example, a1_0)
2. Create a new file test.txt.
3. Sync the project, commit the one change (test.txt)

You get the following error in the console:

cvs server: cannot add file on non-branch tag a1_0

Comment 1 Kevin McGuire

2002-01-31 18:55:15 EST

Reworded title to correct identify that the failure is on add.

Comment 2 James Moody

2002-01-31 21:25:41 EST

We should perhaps disable most of the team ops (sync/add/commit/etc) on 
projects loaded from a version, since you can't change them.

Comment 3 Kevin McGuire

2002-02-01 15:25:57 EST

As per our discussion today, we need to sort through workflows and support 
better.

Disabling menus in this case would be cruel since user would not be able to 
determine why the operations are now unavailable.

Comment 4 James Moody

2002-02-05 11:49:34 EST

Concur. As long as the error clearly indicates why they can't release (it's 
not a branch), and we provide the ability for them to branch (we do), I think 
this is reasonable.

Comment 5 Kevin McGuire

2002-04-29 16:18:20 EDT

We have no suggestions for improvement so punting to 2.0.

Comment 6 Michael Valenta

2002-09-09 15:38:34 EDT

Reopening

Comment 7 Kevin McGuire

2003-02-07 16:38:41 EST

Reducing bug count.
User gets a correct error message (though a bit obscure).  Nobody else has 
reported problems so closing bug report for lack of better idea.