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Subject: Re: Praise for CVSup
To: jdp@polstra.com (John Polstra)
Date: Fri, 9 Aug 1996 20:12:05 -0459 (CDT)
From: "Boyd R. Faulkner" <faulkner@asgard.bga.com>
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In-Reply-To: <199608100056.RAA24189@austin.polstra.com> from "John Polstra" at Aug 9, 96 05:56:38 pm
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According to John Polstra:
> 
> 
> > Blessed be CVSup.  Verily, I have used it and my povray problem
> > hath fled in haste.
> 
> Praise is always welcome, of course, but ... I don't understand.
> You're not implying that CVSup fixed povray, are you?  I was just
> _sure_ I had taken out the experimental "auto-fix-bugs" feature
> before I made the public release. :-)

Check again.

> 
> I wouldn't even ask this, but you said in a different posting that
> CVSup had "fixed something in my tree that sup wouldn't fix."  It's
> sort of hard for me to imagine what that might be.  If you ignore
> the details, they both do the same thing.  Namely, they find files
> that are different on the client and server, and make them the
> same.
> 
> Can you give us some details about what you're referring to?
> 

Actually, I am.  CVSup does more file checking than sup does.  You can
end up with files with the right date and size but not the right contents
and, while I may be wrong, sup will not detect this.  Since CVSup uses
MD5 (yes?)  to ID the files, you are gurarnteed the correct contents.

I was blowing my tree away and resupping pieces but I hadn't got very far.
Whatever was bad is gone now.  I can run povray without getting 
Floating point errors.  I knew it was my tree because I had installed
2.1.5 on another drive in this box and povray had worked.

Maybe I am wrong about how little checking sup does but I don't think so.
Either way, it didn't work.  Then it did.  CVSup was the step inbetween.

Thanks.
Boyd
> Thanks,
> John
> 


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