Re: Anyone else seeing this (cvs wierdness)?

On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 5:36 PM, Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> On May 18, 2008, at 12:27 PM, Ian FREISLICH wrote:
>
>> Max Laier wrote:
>>>
>>> On Friday 16 May 2008 16:12:39 Ian FREISLICH wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Recently - I guess in the last month or two - successive cvs updates
>>>> always "updates" files in the follwing 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'
>>>>
>>>> I've tried removing the offending parts of my source tree and the
>>>> repo and re-updating or syncing them but to no avail.  Is it just
>>>> me or are others seeing this?  Has there been repo "surgery" in
>>>> these areas that's causing this?
>>>
>>> Is this with the updated cvs 1.11 (recently imported to current)?  There
>>> has been some reports of fallout of this on cvs-all_at_ already.
>>
>> It's with:
>>
>> Concurrent Versions System (CVS) 1.11.22.1-20080310-FreeBSD
>> (client/server)
>>
>> Glad to hear the madness probably isn't with me.
>>
>> Ian
>>
>> --
>> Ian Freislich
>
> I'm not sure about cvs, but I've been seeing some weirdness with csup lately
> syncing from HEAD and the fact that it doesn't match cvs... that's most
> likely some entirely different issue though.
> -Garrett

David broke cvs with his last few imports.

The two problems that I know of are all related to 'cvs update'.

- cvs update -C  doesn't work right.  It might not restore the
modified files to clean status.
- cvs update -A  checks out over and over again if the -ko flag is set
on the files.

I've fixed the -ko issue in the repository by removing it from there,
so at least the -A bug won't be so annoying.

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