[CF-Devel] cvs commit

[Mark Wedel]

On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Michael Toennies wrote:

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      I tried a simple cvs.... -f commit...
     
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      Following the CVS docs, this should run through the active directory and
     
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      try to submit the files in it.
     
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      That was what happend, except that there was no cotent check from cvs.
     
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      All files are grapped and forced to check in.
     
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      I can't see hy this happend.
     
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      A mistake by me, a cvs bug or a setup problem by our cvs?
     
     
 I think this is a bug in CVS, in that it doesn't do content check and
uses some other mechanism to determine changed files.  I don't think
there is anything involved on the CVS server in this case (its really
the local cvs command determining what is different) - the cvs server
presumes that if the client says the file is different, that it really
is different.

 My only solution is to just watch what CVS says it will be committing,
and if it is grabbing files it shouldn't, I abort that commit and see
what it is really doing.  At least with the unix CVS, it pops up
an editor for commands, and in that it includes a bunch of cvs comment
lines which do include what files it will be committing.