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Re: Warning: cvsexportcommit considered dangerous

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Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Nov 4, 2007, 23:46 UTC
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<Pine.LNX.4.64.0711042345260.4362@racer.site>
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<200711050005.28561.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
Hi,
On Mon, 5 Nov 2007, Robin Rosenberg wrote:
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> BTW, wouldn't this err on the right side anyway, i.e. if an existing 
> file was not up to date and was wrongly thought to not exist or a new 
> file was thought to be up-to-date, I would get an error and would not be 
> able to commit. I've never seen it though and I always have a clean CVS 
> checkout so the potential bug seems unlikely to me.

The problem is that it can err. For example when I have new files, it says that the files were already added by someone else. And then it refuses to do anything.

Ciao, Dscho

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  1. Johannes SchindelinNov 4, 2007
  2. Steffen ProhaskaNov 4, 2007
  3. Johannes SchindelinNov 4, 2007
  4. Robin RosenbergNov 4, 2007
  5. Johannes SchindelinNov 4, 2007
  6. Alex BenneeNov 15, 2007

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