Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2008 15:55:41 +0000 From: David O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Ian FREISLICH <ianf@clue.co.za> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Anyone else seeing this (cvs wierdness)? Message-ID: <20080606155541.GA90949@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <E1Jx0fn-0001OZ-4J@clue.co.za> References: <E1Jx0fn-0001OZ-4J@clue.co.za>
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On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 04:12:39PM +0200, Ian FREISLICH wrote: > Recently - I guess in the last month or two - successive cvs updates > always "updates" files in the following directories, this with no > update to the CVS repo: > > cddl/contrib/opensolaris > contrib/ntp > contrib/ipfilter > contrib/expat > contrib/tcsh > > I sync a local CVS repo using cvsup and I update my source using > 'cvs -q update -PdA' Why are you always using "update -A"? Basically all the reports of weirdness are due to folks not fully understanding what -A does and is for. If -A removes stickly dates, tags, and (what you're seeing here) stickly options. Options can be set locally, in the ,v file on the server. Some keywords (such as $Name$) may need to be updated due to "update -A". The new behavior we are seeing with "update -A" is due to fixing CVS bug #17168 for 1.11.23 and 1.12.14, which more completely delivers on the semantics of "update -A". -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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