editors get lost with running an update

[Thomas Singer]

Hi,

We've encountered a problem with GNU CVS 1.12.9. Please see the following log.

First, we check out a simple module "test" (cvs watch on was called before):

> tom@linux:~/test$ la
> total 8
> drwxr-xr-x    2 tom      tom          4096 Feb 27 13:34 .
> drwxr-xr-x   34 tom      tom          4096 Feb 27 13:30 ..
> tom@linux:~/test$ cvs checkout test
> cvs checkout: Updating test
> U test/file.txt
> tom@linux:~/test$ la
> total 12
> drwxr-xr-x    3 tom      tom          4096 Feb 27 13:34 .
> drwxr-xr-x   34 tom      tom          4096 Feb 27 13:30 ..
> drwxr-xr-x    3 tom      tom          4096 Feb 27 13:34 test
> tom@linux:~/test$ cd test
> tom@linux:~/test/test$ la
> total 12
> drwxr-xr-x    3 tom      tom          4096 Feb 27 13:34 .
> drwxr-xr-x    3 tom      tom          4096 Feb 27 13:34 ..
> drwxr-xr-x    2 tom      tom          4096 Feb 27 13:34 CVS
> -r--r--r--    1 tom      tom             0 Feb 27 13:25 file.txt

At this point no editors are defined:

> tom@linux:~/test/test$ cvs editors

Now we start editing file.txt:

> tom@linux:~/test/test$ cvs edit file.txt
> tom@linux:~/test/test$ cvs editors
> file.txt        tom     Sun Feb 27 12:34:57 2005 GMT    linux   
> /home/tom/test/test

The user edits the file and invokes a file compare in SmartCVS. SmartCVS 
fetched the original file content by using the update command, simulating a 
non-existent local file. We simulate SmartCVS' behaviour by renaming 
file.txt to file.txt.original:

> tom@linux:~/test/test$ mv file.txt file.txt.original
> tom@linux:~/test/test$ la
> total 12
> drwxr-xr-x    3 tom      tom          4096 Feb 27 13:35 .
> drwxr-xr-x    3 tom      tom          4096 Feb 27 13:34 ..
> drwxr-xr-x    3 tom      tom          4096 Feb 27 13:34 CVS
> -rw-r--r--    1 tom      tom             0 Feb 27 13:25 file.txt.original
> tom@linux:~/test/test$ cvs update file.txt
> cvs update: warning: `file.txt' was lost
> U file.txt

Unfortunately GNU CVS 1.12.9 seems to think, the file is lost and destroys 
the editors information:

> tom@linux:~/test/test$ la
> total 12
> drwxr-xr-x    3 tom      tom          4096 Feb 27 13:35 .
> drwxr-xr-x    3 tom      tom          4096 Feb 27 13:34 ..
> drwxr-xr-x    3 tom      tom          4096 Feb 27 13:35 CVS
> -r--r--r--    1 tom      tom             0 Feb 27 13:35 file.txt
> -rw-r--r--    1 tom      tom             0 Feb 27 13:25 file.txt.original
> tom@linux:~/test/test$ cvs editors

CVSNT 2.0.58d behaves correctly, it keeps the editors information.

What request SmartCVS should send, so GNU CVS 1.12.9 just sends the original 
content of the file without destroying the editors information? Thanks in 
advance.

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Best regards,
Thomas Singer
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