> I cannot reproduce what you are describing. Could you please elaborate ?
Sure. First, it happens on branches when using -j (some tag of head) -j (some other tag of head). First, I tried in a local repo, I didn't reproduce it, BUT I got something weird from cvs status anyway, so here it is: cvs status changelog =================================================================== File: changelog Status: Unresolved Conflict Working revision: 1.307.2.4 cvs status: Can't parse date/time: `Result of merge UTC'. Result of merge UTC Repository revision: 1.307.2.4 /home/cvs/debian/cyrus21-imapd/debian/changelog,v Commit Identifier: (none) Sticky Tag: sarge-branch (branch: 1.307.2) Sticky Date: (none) Sticky Options: (none) Notice the strange error message "cvs status: Can't parse date/time: `Result of merge UTC'." Then I tried it using a remote repository, in Alioth, over ssh. Here's the full dump: $ export CVSROOT=:ext:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/pkg-hpijs $ cvs -q checkout -d test-merge -r sarge-backport-branch hplip [ messages from cvs checkout removed -- all works fine ] $ cd test-merge/ $ cvs log debian/changelog | head -20 RCS file: /cvsroot/pkg-hpijs/hplip/debian/changelog,v Working file: debian/changelog head: 1.207 branch: locks: strict access list: symbolic names: debian_version_0_9_11-1bpo1: 1.102.2.7 debian_version_0_9_11-2: 1.207 debian_version_0_9_11-1: 1.202 debian_version_0_9_10-1: 1.187 debian_version_0_9_9-2: 1.181 debian_version_0_9_9-1: 1.177 debian_version_0_9_8-1_unreleased: 1.160 debian_version_0_9_7-3bpo1: 1.102.2.6 debian_version_0_9_7-4: 1.132 debian_version_0_9_7-3: 1.130 debian_version_0_9_7-0_2sarge1: 1.102.2.3 debian_version_0_9_7-2: 1.128 $ cvs update -dP -j debian_version_0_9_7-3 -j debian_version_0_9_11-2 [ cvs update log removed. Some conflicts happen, no weird error messages show up ] $ cvs status debian/README.Source =================================================================== File: README.Source Status: Up-to-date Working revision: 1.5.2.1 Repository revision: 1.5.2.1 /cvsroot/pkg-hpijs/hplip/debian/README.Source,v Sticky Tag: sarge-backport-branch (branch: 1.5.2) Sticky Date: (none) Sticky Options: (none) $ head -n6 debian/README.Source <<<<<<< README.Source $Id: README.Source,v 1.5.2.1 2006/05/24 03:40:28 hmh Exp $ ======= $Id: README.Source,v 1.6 2006/03/18 19:09:22 hmh Exp $ >>>>>>> 1.6 Notice the file has a broken conflict, which is not detected by cvs status. Nothing else detects it either, if I commit, I will commit a conflicted file with conflict hunks. The update command above is guaranteed to cause conflicts, as that merge has been already performed (and committed) in that branch. But I did notice the error when trying that merge *the first time around*, when those changes had not been committed yet. The environment: LC_MESSAGES=en_US.ISO-8859-1 LANG=pt_BR.ISO-8859-1 RSYNC_RSH=ssh Local CVS version: $ cvs --version Concurrent Versions System (CVS) 1.12.13 (client/server) $ dpkg -s cvs | grep Version: Version: 1:1.12.13-2 Remote CVS version: $ ssh cvs.alioth.debian.org cvs --version Concurrent Versions System (CVS) 1.12.9 (client/server) $ ssh cvs.alioth.debian.org dpkg -s cvs | grep Version: Version: 1:1.12.9-14 -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]