Re: Anyone else seeing this (cvs wierdness)?

On Jun 6, 2008, at 10:24 AM, Peter Wemm wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 8:55 AM, David O'Brien <obrien_at_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