Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2008 10:36:05 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd@gmail.com> To: "Peter Wemm" <peter@wemm.org> Cc: Ian FREISLICH <ianf@clue.co.za>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Anyone else seeing this (cvs wierdness)? Message-ID: <BABEF8E9-AD8A-4FEB-9B6D-3AC0D9B29F52@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <e7db6d980806061024j683e45afj6198f1491e72b691@mail.gmail.com> References: <E1Jx0fn-0001OZ-4J@clue.co.za> <20080606155541.GA90949@hub.freebsd.org> <e7db6d980806061024j683e45afj6198f1491e72b691@mail.gmail.com>
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On Jun 6, 2008, at 10:24 AM, 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 > from a known state. For the last 14 years, -A has done exactly that. > If a stray sticky date or sticky tag had been set, -A would reset the > tag and fetch a new copy and life was good. > > 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. > > Many places in the source tree were affected by clowns using 'cvs > import -ko' in spite of it being removed from the instructions in 1997 > and no longer being part of standard procedure. Ports is badly > affected by -ko at this point. +1 for that. Besides, not using -A can prove to be problematic as Kris pointed out to me when doing development and stuff isn't 100% synced between my local copy and HEAD. -Garrett
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