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the cvs rtag command uses the -B option that was introduced in the 1.11.2 version of cvs. This causes the older supported cvs server to fail. See bug 50004 for details on the change to add the -B option.
Marking a WONTFIX as CVs servers should be upgraded to latest 1.11 release for important security fixes.
Seems that this is a moving target... I had our cvs server upgraded to 1.17 and now Eclipse 2.1.2 fails to get the contents of a branch, including HEAD in the CVS Repositories view. I support various levels of my plugins and need to be able to use older Eclipse versions to build and test fixes. I can't do this using the same server since Eclipse 3.0 doesn't work well with older cvs versions and older Eclipse versions like 2.1.2 don't work with newer cvs versions.
I agree that CVS is a moving target and we are doing are best to keep up. As for this particular bug, I felt that the amount of work required to fix the backwards compatibility issue was not worth the effort given that most people have moved to a newer version of CVS. Evem moving forward to 1.11.2 would fix your problem and provide compatibility with all versions of Eclipse. As for the latest CVS versions, Eclipse 2.1.3 is compatible with 1.11.17. If you need to use Eclipse 2.1.2, you can get patches to make it work with 1.11.17 in bug 46655.
I also work on a plugin that must work in n->n-1/n+1 environments so I can sympathize. It is ok to close this bug.
