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

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

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From: christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)
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Subject: Re: bin/42961: cvs near-silently throws away local mods
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:36:44 -0400

 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