Re: bin/42961: cvs near-silently throws away local mods

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

On Mar 11,  7:15pm, dholland%eecs.harvard.edu@localhost 
(dholland%eecs.harvard.edu@localhost) wrote:
-- Subject: bin/42961: cvs near-silently throws away local mods

| Worse, in a large update most likely the message would go by without
| anyone noticing it; I tend to grep update logs for '^[CM]' and some
| people just do find . -name '*.rej' to see if anything failed.

The original file is kept in .#<filename>:<revision>. CVS does this
(I think) when it determines that the file does not match the original
at all. I think it is a bug that it does not say what it did, and perhaps
it should exit with a non-zero code... Anyway, your changes are not lost :-)

christos