Re: rdiff

[Derek Robert Price]

Paul Edwards wrote:

> I have tested this patch and it works like a dream.  I tried to
> run the sanity.sh but it appeared to complain (although not in
> so many words, I wasn't sure if it was an error or not) that I
> need an "id" that knew about "-u" and "-n', which a "man id"
> showed that my id supposedly did know about those
> parameters.  But after printing that error/non-error it appeared
> to end, so I assume from that that it was an error and it didn't
> like something about my "id" program.

No, it was talking about your `id' program being incompatible with the 
script.  It was setting up to match your username in CVS output during 
tests.

> So I hope it passes the sanity.sh.
>  

I came up with pretty much exactly what you did, aside from some cleanup 
and additional error messages, and it seems to fix the problem but it 
seemed to introduce a new one - the tests are failing in 
head-trunk-diff.  I'm going to try and look into why today.

Derek

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