Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2008 16:12:08 -0700 From: "Peter Wemm" <peter@wemm.org> To: obrien@freebsd.org, "Peter Wemm" <peter@wemm.org>, "Ian FREISLICH" <ianf@clue.co.za>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Anyone else seeing this (cvs wierdness)? Message-ID: <e7db6d980806061612v249df6e3x2a98ef97f7d55bd4@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20080606215832.GA82082@dragon.NUXI.org> References: <E1Jx0fn-0001OZ-4J@clue.co.za> <20080606155541.GA90949@hub.freebsd.org> <e7db6d980806061024j683e45afj6198f1491e72b691@mail.gmail.com> <20080606215832.GA82082@dragon.NUXI.org>
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On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 2:58 PM, David O'Brien <obrien@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 10:24:40AM -0700, Peter Wemm wrote: >> On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 8:55 AM, David O'Brien <obrien@freebsd.org> wrote: >> > 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". >> >> We use -A because we've often messed with sticky dates and tags in our >> checked out copy and want to reset anything we've forgotten and start > .. >> This is not what is happening now. If the server has a nonstandard >> rcs keyword expansion mode, cvs fetches a fresh copy, each and every >> time. Even if the checked out copy has the correct expansion mode. >> Over and over and over again. > > Talk to the CVS developers (and read the bug report trail that lead to > this change). This behavior is intended. I'm not saying I care for it, > but its not a bug. It is a bug. The old working behavior is what we've come to depend on and there is no replacement for the 'reset sticky tags and dates' mode that we *need*. Unless we have a way to get the old behavior back, we still need this backed out to the state it was in 6.x and 7.x, where it !^%@$#^!%@#!@# works! -- Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 "If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution." -- Robert Sewell
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