Re: Notes for CVS Converts

From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date: Sep 21, 2005, 14:04 UTC
Message-ID: <20050921140403.GB17981@pasky.or.cz>
In-Reply-To: <1125515315.13577.53.camel@cashmere.sps.mot.com>

Dear diary, on Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 09:08:36PM CEST, I got a letter where Jon Loeliger <jdl@freescale.com> told me that...

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> Guys,
> 
> I was recently bitten by a cg-rm behavior where
> it silently Did The Wrong Thing, IMO.  I think
> that other CVS Converts might stumble across the
> same pitfall, so it might warrant a comment in
> the documentation, perhaps in the "Notes For CVS
> Users" section.

Thanks for this, I changed the default to not deleting the files.

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> However, in my case I had already moved/removed the
> original files.  The "find" didn't find them and the
> cache update didn't happen.  And no output was generated
> either.  But I thought nothing of it; after all, "rm"
> doesn't produce output when it works successfully.

There was a bug like that, but I believe it was already fixed in the release available by the time you were writing this mail.

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