removed files reappearing when they shouldn't

[Robert Hayes]

Hi,
I've come across some cvs behaviour that just doesn't make any sense
to me.  Maybe someone here can shed some light on the situation?

Basically, consider what happens if you:
 - add a file "foo" to directory "bar" at, say, 11:00
 - check it out to two locations, "a" and "b" at 11:01
 - do a cvs remove of foo from location "a" at 11:02
 - modify foo in location "b", "Up-to-date check failed" error, update
(fine) and then commit changes at 11:03

Clear?  (btw, I'm using cvs version 1.11)

Now, this is where things happen that I don't understand.
 - if I check out "bar" at 11:06 (not specifying any
revision/tag/branch/time details), the file "foo" is not there.
 - if I check out "bar" at 11:06 (specifying a time such as "2 seconds
ago"), the file "foo" is still not there.
 - however, if I check out "bar" at 11:06 (setting the time to be,
e.g. what the time was a short time ago (say 11:05)), the file "foo"
_is_ there.
Is that not bizarre?

Note that this isn't an issue with different times on the client and
server; I'm giving the time as the time on the CVS server.

Can anyone else reproduce this and tell me what is going on?

thanks,
Robert Hayes

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