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I am having problems with sticky tags; how do I get rid of them?
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Various CVS operations cause the working copy to have a "sticky tag",
meaning a single tag that corresponds to each revision for each file
(in the case of a branch, the sticky tag is applied to any new files
added in the working copy).  You get a sticky tagged working area
whenever you check out or update by tag or date, for example:

     floss$ cvs update -r Tag_Name

or

     floss$ cvs checkout -D '1999-08-16'

If a date or a nonbranch tag name is used, the working copy will be a
frozen snapshot of that moment in the project's history - so naturally
you will not be able to commit any changes from it.

To remove a sticky tag, run update with the -A flag

     floss$ cvs update -A

which clears all the sticky tags and updates each file to its most
recent trunk revision.