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

[David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR bin/42961; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: bin/42961: cvs near-silently throws away local mods
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 22:02:22 +0000

 On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 09:40:05PM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
  >  | 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.
 
 It didn't this time.
 
 My changes aren't lost, but only because of pre-existing .#* files
 from earlier merges.
 
 What worries me is how many times this may have happened without me
 noticing at all, and how many changes may have been lost entirely...
 
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 David A. Holland
 dholland%netbsd.org@localhost