Re: Tags with slash character

[Jim Hyslop]

Alan Harder wrote:
> Probably this has been found before, but I didn't find it in BUGS or in
> a quick search of issue reports on cvshome.org.
>
> I have found that CVS has problems if you use a slash(/) character in
> a tag/branch name.  The tag is created ok and you can checkout/update
> using that tag.. however, cvs status will then report "Entry Invalid"
> and new revisions can't be committed on such a branch.

Well, the documentation states that the only characters allowed in tags 
are letters, digits, underscores and dashes (and the tag must start with 
a letter). So this may not have been noticed before.

> I'm using cvs 1.11.6 on Solaris with pserver access.
I have confirmed that the problem still exists in 1.11.20.

Thanks for reporting this, Alan.

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Jim