Max Bowsher wrote:
Gosh, I don't remember the exact details, and can't seem to find it in my TODO or NOTES files for cvs. Trolling thru my mail archives...In http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2002-06/msg00754.html, Charles withdrew a test cvs-1.11.2 package, saying that some bugs had been found. I've recently compiled cvs 1.11.4 for myself, because I wanted the new rlog command. I was wondering what these bugs were, in case I might encounter them in my locally compiled version.
It seems that the problems were the standard text/binary issues, on reading .cvsignore, .cvsrc, .cvspass -- coupled with issues reading the ENTRIES, REPOSITORY, and ROOT files in the CVS dirs. Something like they tended to gain more and more ^M's at the end of each line...which led to problems. These issues are NOT problems on cvs-1.11.0, IIRC, and represent a regression for cvs-1.11.2. Plus, there are the continuing problems of hosting a cvs repository on a text mount. I think.
Really, these issues are not too difficult to track down and fix, but I decided to abandon the official cvs codebase at that point(see below), and haven't worked up the gumption to re-do all of the original cygwin-porting stuff with regards to the cvsnt codebase, so we're still languishing at cvs-1.11.0.
Anyway, I'm stunned to hear that the bozos running the cvs project actually got around to releasing TWO new versions (1.11.3 and 1.11.4). [No, I don't have a lot of respect for people who contemptuously ignore patches without even the courtesy of a response...after a couple of reminders over several weeks...]
Because of all that, I'd pretty much decided that the next time I update the 'cvs' package, I'm going to use the cvsnt codebase (which, despite its name, does compile under unix: on "unixoid" platforms, it is essentially regular cvs + bugfixes. Bugfixes the "real" cvs maintainers seem to believe are beneath their dignity. No, I'm not bitter.) But that's a lot of testing I'm not really ready for right now.
So, in answer to your question, I'd make sure that the behavior and contents of the .cvs* files, and the CVS/* files, make "sense" when your home directory and working directories are on both binary and text mounts -- and continue to make sense after a few rounds of commits and checkouts.
--Chuck
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