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Import cvs-1.9.23 as at 19980123. There are a number of really nice things fixed in here, including the '-ko' vs. -A problem with remote cvs which caused all files with -ko to be resent each time (which is damn painful over a modem, I can tell you). It also found a heap of stray empty directories that should have been pruned with the -P flag to cvs update but were not for some reason. It also has the fully integrated rcs and diff, so no more fork/exec overheads for rcs,ci,patch,diff,etc. This means that it parses the control data in the rcs files only once rather than twice or more. If the 'cvs diff' vs. Index thing is going to be fixed for future patch compatability, this is the place to do it.
1998-01-26 03:09:57 +00:00
See the Cederqvist manual (cvs.texinfo) for information on how to
report bugs (and what will happen to your bug reports if you do).
Import of slightly trimmed cvs-1.8 distribution. Generated files and non-unix code has been left out.
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The following is a list of some of the known bugs. It may or may not
be comprehensive. We would dearly love for people to volunteer to
help us keep it up to date (for starters, if you notice any
Import cvs-1.9.23 as at 19980123. There are a number of really nice things fixed in here, including the '-ko' vs. -A problem with remote cvs which caused all files with -ko to be resent each time (which is damn painful over a modem, I can tell you). It also found a heap of stray empty directories that should have been pruned with the -P flag to cvs update but were not for some reason. It also has the fully integrated rcs and diff, so no more fork/exec overheads for rcs,ci,patch,diff,etc. This means that it parses the control data in the rcs files only once rather than twice or more. If the 'cvs diff' vs. Index thing is going to be fixed for future patch compatability, this is the place to do it.
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inaccuracies, please let bug-cvs know as described in the Cederqvist
manual). There are some other reported bugs in MINOR-BUGS; the
difference, at least in theory, is that those bugs are less serious.
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* For platform-specific information (in some cases including known
bugs), see README.VMS, windows-NT/README, or os2/README. There is no
similar file for the unix-like operating systems (not yet, at least).
This file also might contain some platform-specific bugs.
Import cvs-1.9.23 as at 19980123. There are a number of really nice things fixed in here, including the '-ko' vs. -A problem with remote cvs which caused all files with -ko to be resent each time (which is damn painful over a modem, I can tell you). It also found a heap of stray empty directories that should have been pruned with the -P flag to cvs update but were not for some reason. It also has the fully integrated rcs and diff, so no more fork/exec overheads for rcs,ci,patch,diff,etc. This means that it parses the control data in the rcs files only once rather than twice or more. If the 'cvs diff' vs. Index thing is going to be fixed for future patch compatability, this is the place to do it.
1998-01-26 03:09:57 +00:00
* One cannot specify some files as binary in a "cvs import" using
CVSROOT/cvswrappers (for why, note that client_process_import_file has
no way of knowing about CVSROOT/cvswrappers which is off on the
server).
Import a slightly newer version of 1.9.9 (as at 970523) that has fixed a few more memory leaks and cleaned up getopt usage. These were done shortly after the last one I imported. Very little has changed other than that. (except for some doc updates) Obtained from: cyclic.com
1997-05-23 14:48:05 +00:00
Import cvs-1.9.23 as at 19980123. There are a number of really nice things fixed in here, including the '-ko' vs. -A problem with remote cvs which caused all files with -ko to be resent each time (which is damn painful over a modem, I can tell you). It also found a heap of stray empty directories that should have been pruned with the -P flag to cvs update but were not for some reason. It also has the fully integrated rcs and diff, so no more fork/exec overheads for rcs,ci,patch,diff,etc. This means that it parses the control data in the rcs files only once rather than twice or more. If the 'cvs diff' vs. Index thing is going to be fixed for future patch compatability, this is the place to do it.
1998-01-26 03:09:57 +00:00
* I don't think that "cvs add" honors any of the -k wrappers, at least
not in client/server mode. I would think it should. Getting
CVSROOT/cvswrappers to work would presumably best be done by keeping a
copy of it in the CVS directory on the client, as has also been
discussed for CVS/Template, &c. Getting a client-side .cvswrappers to
work is a separate issue.
* Need more work on the procedure for fixing it if a binary file is
accidentally added in text mode (sanity.sh test cases, better
documentation, probably update and/or admin -kb should update
the -k setting in CVS/Entries).
* Wrappers (-t/-f) do not work client/server, and there are a variety of other
Import a slightly newer version of 1.9.9 (as at 970523) that has fixed a few more memory leaks and cleaned up getopt usage. These were done shortly after the last one I imported. Very little has changed other than that. (except for some doc updates) Obtained from: cyclic.com
1997-05-23 14:48:05 +00:00
bugs and annoyances with wrappers.
Import cvs-1.9.23 as at 19980123. There are a number of really nice things fixed in here, including the '-ko' vs. -A problem with remote cvs which caused all files with -ko to be resent each time (which is damn painful over a modem, I can tell you). It also found a heap of stray empty directories that should have been pruned with the -P flag to cvs update but were not for some reason. It also has the fully integrated rcs and diff, so no more fork/exec overheads for rcs,ci,patch,diff,etc. This means that it parses the control data in the rcs files only once rather than twice or more. If the 'cvs diff' vs. Index thing is going to be fixed for future patch compatability, this is the place to do it.
1998-01-26 03:09:57 +00:00
* If your login name contains a space or various other characters
(particularly an issue on Windows), CVS will have trouble (it will
write invalid RCS files, probably). The fix would be to have CVS
change such characters to underscores before writing them to the RCS
file. Furthermore, the LOGNAME or USER environment variables usually
won't override the system login name, so this can be hard to work
around.
* If you specify the -w global option to client/server CVS, it only
overrides a CVSREAD environment variable set on the client, not a
CVSREAD variable which was set on the server (for example, in .bashrc
when the server was run via rsh). The fix of course will be to
provide a "Option-read-write" request which sends -w, in addition to
"Global_option -r" which sends -r.
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* "make remotecheck" sometimes fails on test 187a3 with
cvs server: in directory .:
cvs [server aborted]: *PANIC* administration files missing
This does not happen every time. (-kingdon, Nov 96, Red Hat linux 3.0.3).
* The -m option to "cvs add" does not work with client/server CVS.
CVS will accept the option, but it won't actually set the
file's description.
* cvs update walks into a user's work directory if there's a directory
of the same name in the repository even if the user's directory
doesn't yet have a CVS admin sub-directory. This can greatly confuse
users who try to add the same directory at nearly the same time.
* 'cvs admin' dumped core when files were missing from working directory
(and from the repository)?
Import of slightly trimmed cvs-1.8 distribution. Generated files and non-unix code has been left out.
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* The following bug was reported against CVS 1.9:
Create a module named test with a file named test in it.
cactus:sfavor> cvs get test
cvs checkout: Updating test
U test/test
cactus:sfavor> cd test
cactus:sfavor> cvs get test
cvs checkout: cannot chdir to test: Not a directory
cvs checkout: ignoring module test
Exit 1
cactus:sfavor> cvs update
cvs update: Updating .
rcs.c:2139: failed assertion `rev == NULL || isdigit (*rev)'
Abort (core dumped)
Exit 134
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* pcl-cvs doesn't like it when you try to check in a file which isn't
up-to-date. The messages produced by the server perhaps don't match
what pcl-cvs is looking for.
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* From: billr@mpd.tandem.com (Bill Robertson)
Subject: Problem with rtag and the -D option
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 1995 10:53:29 -0600 (CST)
I have been trying to use the -D option to specify a date for tagging, but
rtag does not recognize the -D option. It is documented to do so and I've
tested the use of -D with cvs update and cvs diff and it works fine there.
* Defining RELATIVE_REPOS is said to not work with client/server CVS.
* From: "Charles M. Hannum" <mycroft@ai.mit.edu>
To: info-cvs@prep.ai.mit.edu
Subject: Still one more bug
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 1995 17:01:15 -0500
mycroft@duality [1]; cd /usr/src/lib/libc
mycroft@duality [1]; cvs diff -c2 '-D1 day ago' -Dnow
cvs server: Diffing .
cvs server: Diffing DB
cvs [server aborted]: could not chdir to DB: No such file or directory
mycroft@duality [1];
`DB' is an old directory, which no longer has files in it, and is
removed automatically when I use the `-P' option to checkout.
This error doesn't occur when run locally.
P.S. Is anyone working on fixing these bugs?
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* From: Roland McGrath <roland@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
To: Cyclic CVS Hackers <info-cvs@prep.ai.mit.edu>
Subject: weird bug
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 1995 16:41:41 -0500
X-Windows: Even your dog won't like it.
I just noticed some droppings on my disk from what must be a pretty weird
bug in remote CVS.
In my home directory on a repository machine I use, I find:
drwxr-xr-x 4 roland staff 512 Mar 7 14:08 cvs-serv28962
drwxr-xr-x 4 roland staff 512 Mar 7 14:11 cvs-serv28978
drwxr-xr-x 4 roland staff 512 Mar 7 15:13 cvs-serv29141
OK, so these are leftover cruft from some cvs run that got aborted.
Well, it should clean up after itself, but so what.
The last one is pretty dull; the real weirdness is the contents of the
first two directories.
duality 77 # ls -RF cvs-serv28978/
CVS/ cvs-serv28978/
cvs-serv28978/CVS:
Entries Repository
cvs-serv28978/cvs-serv28978:
arpa/
cvs-serv28978/cvs-serv28978/arpa:
CVS/ cvs-serv28978/
cvs-serv28978/cvs-serv28978/arpa/CVS:
Entries Repository
cvs-serv28978/cvs-serv28978/arpa/cvs-serv28978:
assert/
cvs-serv28978/cvs-serv28978/arpa/cvs-serv28978/assert:
CVS/ cvs-serv28978/
cvs-serv28978/cvs-serv28978/arpa/cvs-serv28978/assert/CVS:
Entries Repository
cvs-serv28978/cvs-serv28978/arpa/cvs-serv28978/assert/cvs-serv28978:
bare/
cvs-serv28978/cvs-serv28978/arpa/cvs-serv28978/assert/cvs-serv28978/bare:
CVS/ cvs-serv28978/
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cvs-serv28978/cvs-serv28978/arpa/cvs-serv28978/assert/cvs-serv28978/bare/cvs-serv28978:
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cvs-serv28978/cvs-serv28978/arpa/cvs-serv28978/assert/cvs-serv28978/bare/cvs-serv28978/conf:
CVS/ cvs-serv28978/
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CVS/ cvs-serv28978/
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csu/
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CVS/ cvs-serv28978/
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* From: Roland McGrath <roland@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
To: Cyclic CVS Hackers <info-cvs@prep.ai.mit.edu>
Subject: bizarre failure mode
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 95 14:17:28 -0500
This is pretty weird:
CVS_SERVER='TMPDIR=. /usr/local/bin/cvs' ../cvs-build/src/cvs update -q
cvs [server aborted]: could not get working directory: Result too large
[Exit 1]
asylum 29 % grep 'Result too large' /usr/include/sys/errno.h
#define ERANGE 34 /* Result too large */
Now, getcwd fails with ERANGE when the buffer is too small. But I don't
know why that would be the case; I don't think there are exceptionally long
directory names involved. It would be robust to notice ERANGE and use a
bigger buffer. But I suspect something weirder is going on.
The repository in question in duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu:/gd4/gnu/cvsroot/libc.
Send me a PGP-signed message if you want the password to use the machine
where the problem showed up.
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